Ireland is rated sixth richest country in global wealth league
The Standard & Poor's agency ratings show Ireland lying in sixth position for the second year in a row, easily beating the likes of the US and the UK, who took 11th and 18th places respectively. Ireland's average income has risen from ?39,335 last year to a new high of ?44,000. The increase in wealth is reflected in spending both on property and on the high street.
Sale of Yeats painting stopped THE sale in Sotheby's in London of a famous Jack Yeats painting stolen in 1990 from Dunsany Castle in Co Meath has been cancelled after the intervention of Scotland Yard. A restraining order was served on the sale, pending formal identification of the painting and its legal owner.
The painting, Bachelor's Walk, In Memoriam was one of five paintings stolen in the robbery. The National Gallery said it had contacted gardai following publication of a photograph of the painting at the back of a Sotheby's catalogue for its Irish sale
in May.
ESB to help storm-hit UK homes SIXTEEN ESB network crews will travel to the UK today to assist in restoring power to thousands of homes left without electricity in the wake of the storms that swept across Europe on Thursday and Friday. The crews, from Dublin, Navan, Portlaoise, Tuam and Athlone, are travelling with vehicles and equipment following a request from the electricity companies in the UK.
Trawler recovery to resume TRAWLERS are set to scour the seabed off Mine Head once weather conditions ease to try to recover further wreckage from the sunken trawler, Honeydew II.
Naval Service divers are unlikely to be able to conduct further dives on the Pere Charles wreck off Hook Head until next Tuesday. Both trawlers sank 10 days ago off the Waterford and Wexford coast with the loss of seven lives.
No winner of ?5.6m Lotto THERE was no winner of last night's ?5.6m Lotto jackpot - so Wednesday's jackpot is now heading for ?6.5m. The numbers drawn were 5, 12, 23, 24, 26, 32 (bonus 7).
There was one Match 5+bonus winner, who gets ?25,000; 69 Match 5 winners (?1,396); 241 Match 4+bonus winners (?100); 3,009 Match 4 winners (?49); and 5,194 Match 3+bonus (?19). And this week, some 50,155 Match 3 winners get ?5 each.
The Lotto Plus Draw 1 numbers were 6, 13, 18, 25, 26, 27 (bonus 29). The Lotto Plus Draw 2 numbers were 3, 15, 31, 33, 44, 45 (bonus 17).
And in the UK Lotto main draw for stg£4.7m, the numbers drawn were 49, 07, 26, 39, 28, 04 (bonus 47).
Panic as lightning hits jet PASSENGERS on an Aer Lingus flight from New York yesterday thought they were being attacked by terrorists when lightning struck their plane.
"I thought I'd breathed my last," said Bridie Webb, one of the 225 passengers aboard flight EI104. She was sitting on the right of the aircraft where lightning hit the wing with a "big flash".
Captain Paul Neeson told concerned passengers that the plane was built to withstand such strikes. It was only the second time in his 28 years of flying that his plane had been struck by lightning, he said later.
Banker leaves estate of ?6m DANIEL McCarthy, retired bank manager, Kilcrea, Rochestown Road, Cork, who died on April 22, 2006, left estate valued at ?6,047,206 nett.
Other estates: Eileen Finlay, retired company director, Leeson Park, Dublin (formerly of Crannagh Road, Rathfarnham), ?5,583,045. Hugh Sharkey, landlord, The Cloisters, Harold's Cross, Dublin, ?4,619,452. Mary McDermott, Upper George's Street, Dun Laoghaire, ?3,555,962.
Seamus Phelan, farmer, Derrykearn, Abbeyleix, Co Laois, ?1,696,284. John Robinson, retired Guinness employee, Churchtown Close, Milltown, Dublin, ?1,673,448. Nicholas Duffy, businessman, Clonmellon, Navan, Co Meath, ?1,590,037. John Price, retired garage proprietor, Glendale House, Roundwood, Co Wicklow, ?1,553,415. Desmond Gleeson, retired dentist, Lucan Road, Chapelizod,Dublin, ?,536,679. Denis Mooney, retired schoolteacher, Mount Venus Road, Rathfarnham, ?1,499,515. Bernadette Smyth, Knapton Road, Dun Laoghaire, ?1,494,889. Edward Lawlor, company director, Upper Dargle Road, Bray, ?1,488,098.
David Doran, retired farmer, Tominearly, Clonroche, Co Wexford, ?1,467,236. Gerard Ellis, Roman Catholic priest, Rathdown Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow, ?1,459,287. Johanna Sheedy, retired public health nurse, O'Connell Square, Mountmellick, Co Laois, ?1,420,993.
Amounts represent gross value, including property: Probate Office.
