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Winchman killed in Rescue 116 helicopter crash left almost €900,000 in his will 

Tragic helicopter winchman Paul Ormsby, who was killed in the Rescue 116 helicopter crash off Achill Head, Co Mayo, left an estate valued at almost €900,000, according to documents lodged in the Probate Office last week.

Last tribute to man who gave shape to Ireland 

Padraig O hUiginn, the former secretary general at the Department of the Taoiseach, was eulogised as a man with a "big heart and a great mind", his cousin Fr Vincent McDevitt told his funeral Mass yesterday.

Civil servant with a 'big heart and great mind' - funeral of Padraig O hUiginn pays tribute to man who gave shape to Ireland 

Padraig O hUiginn, the former secretary general at the Department of the Taoiseach, was eulogised as a man with a “big heart and a great mind”, his cousin Fr Vincent McDevitt told his funeral Mass earlier today.

Michael Flatley's mother leaves almost €400,000 in her will 

Elizabeth Flatley, the mother of millionaire Irish dancer Michael Flatley, left nearly €400,000 in her will, according to documents lodged in the Probate Office in Dublin last week.

Dentist kidnapped in terror ransom plot leaves more than €1m 

The late John O'Grady, the Dublin dentist kidnapped by ''Border Fox'' Dessie O'Hare, has left more than €1m in his will, according to papers lodged in the Probate Office in Dublin.

Sale away: Titanic sister ship's panels to fetch €500,000 at auction 

Ornate panelling from the Titanic's sister ship will be sold in a historic auction next month.

'It's like sitting in the lounge of the Titanic' - panelling of sister ship to go under the hammer 

If you want to know what it was like to sit in one of the richly panelled state rooms of the tragic Titanic, the opportunity will soon present itself at a hotel in the Irish midlands, more than a century after the great liner sank.

Liam Collins: 'Why can't the skyline match a vibrant city?' 

It could have been so different. Without interfering with the integrity of Dublin as a Georgian city, the docklands could have been framed with Norman Foster's piercing U2 Tower on Britain Quay on the southside, Zaha Hadid's Tedcastle Tower on the north side, with Rafael Vinoly's Spencer Dock proposal soaring into the skyline over the Liffey.

Thundering headlines but life carried on... 

On Sunday, April 17, 1949, the eve of Eire becoming the Republic of Ireland, the Sunday Independent proudly carried the story with the sub-heading "Guns Will Thunder and Trumpets Will Sound".

Liam Collins: 'Lack of understanding between two tribes sharing the road is leading to casualties' 

Cycling is healthy, eco-friendly, an efficient way for suburban dwellers to commute - and, at times, extremely bloody dangerous.

Liam Collins: 'Give me Coogan's comedic rebel songs over Rice's inane tweeting' 

'Oh my God, that was like an advert for the IRA," says Alan Partridge after his doppelganger, Martin Brennan from Sligo, has just done a medley of 'Come Out Ye Black And Tans' and 'The Men Behind the Wire' on his ersatz British chat show.

Liam Collins: 'The racist firebombers have got their way - and the biggest loser is Rooskey' 

As the Department of Justice pleads "legal difficulties" for not going ahead with a Refugee Reception Centre in the village of Rooskey, the sorry truth is that the racist fire-bombers have succeeded.

'It's bonkers to retire at 65' says Bosco's busy mammy 

People of a certain age can instantly guess the age of an Irish Marian. For a start, almost all Marians were born in 1954, and foisted with the name by their reverential mothers in honour of the Roman Catholic inspired Marian Year.

Liam Collins: 'The anthem, the writer and a hunger for remembrance' 

As the strains of The Fields of Athenry ring around Lansdowne Road today, the thoughts of Pete St John will not be very far from what he calls his "Famine song".

Obituary: Eddie Collins 

The Waterford businessman and minister of state Eddie Collins, who has died aged 78, was the only senior figure in modern Fine Gael to be sacked from government, having rejected what was regarded as the "honourable" option of resigning in the belief that he had done nothing wrong.

Irish scientist and entrepreneur leaves behind €21m in will 

Entrepreneur Pearse Lyons, founder of the global animal nutrition group Alltech, who died in the United States almost a year ago, has left more than €21m in his will.

Pub family's bitter feud comes back to haunt six sons 

There were echoes of a bitter family feud in the will of a wealthy Dublin publican which went to probate last week.

The day all peaceful means ended 

The shiny new plaque, in black stone with gold lettering, commemorating the Soloheadbeg ambush - the event credited with starting the War of Independence on January 21, 1919 - claims that these first brutal killings of two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary began a campaign which "compelled the enemy to sue for peace".

No answer at 'The House of the Dead', but party goes on 

As he walked up the steps of the "dark gaunt house" on Usher's Island on the night of Little Christmas, January 6, "a light fringe of snow" on the shoulders of his overcoat, Gabriel Conroy was walking into a party that - 115 years later -will be recreated in Dublin again tonight.

Gary Hutch - whose murder sparked brutal Kinahan/Hutch feud - left estate of €21,768 

Gary Hutch whose murder in Spain in 2015 sparked the brutal Kinahan/Hutch feud left estate valued at more than €21,000, according to documents lodged in the Probate Office in Dublin last week.

The curious tale of the doctor, the stamp collectors and the theft that crashed an empire 

Entering Jammet's restaurant, Dr Paul Singer found that the chair provided was uncomfortable for his 25-stone girth, so he borrowed the piano stool and settled down to dinner after a hard day arguing in the High Court in Dublin.

The doctor, the drugs and his own case of addiction 

He doesn't remember the moment he first injected morphine - but Liam Farrell will never forget the consequences of what he now calls, "that pivotal act in my own destruction".

'In all the talk about housing, real people often get lost or forgotten' 

I've always wanted to have a pint of Guinness with a Guinness, but when I put it to Rory Guinness, he politely declines.

Stage and screen stars bid farewell to Donall 

fAMOUS faces from the worlds of theatre and television joined family and friends at the funeral of Donall Farmer, RTE's former head of drama, who was probably best known as Fr Tim Devereux, the parish priest "with the kindly face" in the long-running television series Glenroe.

Stage and screen stars bid farewell to Glenroe's Donall Farmer 

Famous faces from the worlds of theatre and television joined family and friends at the funeral of Donall Farmer, RTE’s former head of drama, who was probably best known as Fr Tim Devereux, the parish priest “with the kindly face” in the long-running television series Glenroe.

The story of Ireland's would-be astronauts and the space shuttle that never took off 

Twenty-seven years after they set off to join the space race, Ireland's four would-be astronauts were reunited in Dublin recently, a little older, but still doing what they were doing when they were recruited for the European Space Agency project in 1991.

From high life to high court, saga of the €20m mansion and changing fortunes 

As he served with British Intelligence in Persia and later Palestine, Bill Magan dreamed of the hunting fields of Westmeath which he had abandoned to go to war, and of re-establishing himself in Ireland in the style of an old Gaelic chieftain.

Liam Collins: 'Time to blow the whistle on sports thuggery' 

I was shocked at a recent GAA minor hurling match in south county Dublin at the undertone of violence on, and particularly off, the pitch.

Derek Hutch left €136,000 

Murder victim Derek Hutch, who was shot dead in a gangland feud in Dublin, left an estate valued at €136,360, according to documents lodged in the Probate Office in Dublin last week.

Liam Collins: 'Meet Ireland's 'silver serfs', whose job of parenting never ends' 

Like a lot of things, you only really see them when you start looking. The older woman pushing a young child in a buggy; the grey-haired man waiting each day at the school gate; the elderly couple hanging around the shopping centre with a clutch of kids still dressed in their school uniforms, waiting until 5.30pm so they can deliver them back to their parents.

How my drinking pal Bernard had a brilliant eye for the absurdity in life 

What Jeffrey Bernard, who started each day with a vodka and orange juice for breakfast, was doing in Kerry seemed to be a mystery, even to him.

Urban foxes get too close for comfort 

My daughter was coming home from babysitting one night recently when a fox casually trotted past her with someone's pet rabbit in its mouth.

Benchmark of a father and his genius son 

When his rakish father John Stanislaus Joyce died in the Whitworth Hospital in Drumcondra, Dublin in December 1931, his son James requested that he be commemorated with a bench adjacent to the grounds where people could sit and chat.

Iron out a few details and Ross's 'granny flat' grant is actually a pretty good idea 

If you put aside Shane Ross's obsession with the grey vote, his latest 'granny flat' grant is a very good idea on a number of levels.

Unveiled at last, the secret of a naked artistic mystery 

Before there was the Playboy ''centrefold'' there was the erotic realism of Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World which was painted more than 150 years ago and inspired one of the great mysteries of the art world.

Last tributes to TV quizmaster Bunny 

"He was an ordinary man who lived an extraordinary life," Alan Carr said at the end of the funeral Mass for his father Bunny in Sutton, Co Dublin yesterday. "But most of all, his story was a love story of Bunny and our mother Joan, who are together now," he added.

The best of enemies... letters tell the tale of JP's Ginger classic 

While it has not yet lived up to Brendan Behan's prophesy that it would "beat the bejasus out of the Bible", The Ginger Man has sold millions of copies around the world and spawned an industry once presided over by its author, JP Donleavy, and continued by his literary heirs, his adult children Philip and Karen.

The last will and testament of a Guinness heir: 'I give Galway back her ancient gates - and my nephews get the Rolls Royces' 

The traditional music enthusiast and Guinness heir the Hon Garech Browne of Luggala, Co Wicklow, has left more than €4m in an eccentric 1985 will in which many of the beneficiaries, including his father and mother, Lord and Lady Oranmore and Browne, are already dead.

Obituary: John Mulcahy 

The owner of The Phoenix magazine, John Mulcahy, who has died in Dublin at the age of 86, was regarded by some as a muckraking publisher and by others as an editor who exposed the Irish elites to well-deserved scrutiny.

Ah, misty autumn - a sensible season 

Writing this I'm listening, as I do around this time of year, to the plaintiff voice of Ronnie Drew on his final recording, singing Kurt Weill's September Song and thinking of the passing of time.

Obituary: Michael O'Flaherty 

Michael O'Flaherty, who has died at his home in Guernsey at the age of 86, was the son of businessman Stephen O'Flaherty who made his fortune through acquiring the Volkswagen franchise for Ireland and England, becoming one of Ireland's richest men in the process.

Obituary: Mick O'Toole 

The flamboyant horse trainer and gambler Mick O'Toole, who has died aged 86, had notable successes in training Davy Lad to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1977 and Dickens Hill to win the Irish 2000 Guineas, in 1979.

A very special street party for dissenters and devotees 

To a cacophony of church bells and helicopter blades, Pope Francis swept through Dublin city centre yesterday.

Final farewell to a gilded age as Garech Browne's ashes scattered in dark waters 

His leave-taking had little of the spontaneous entertainment that sometimes went on for days at Luggala, but then Garech Browne is gone, even if his spirit lives on in the brooding Wicklow fastness he once called home.

The night the bloody Triad wars erupted on the streets of Dublin 

The photographer Art O'Callaghan had left Higgins's pub near the junction of Liffey Street and was making his way back to the newspaper's office in Middle Abbey Street, Dublin when a whirling mass of Chinese men spilled out of the doorway of a narrow little restaurant known as The New Universal brandishing meat cleavers, long kitchen knives and iron bars.

The saga of the senior counsel, the hotel owner and the miniature Pomeranian 

Eighty-year-old champion Bridge-playing barrister Barbara Seligman was wheeling her 14-year-old miniature toy Pomeranian dog Topaz in a pram towards the apartment she rents in Gorey from Mary Bowe - owner of Marlfield House - when a neighbour stopped her to admire 'the baby'.

Exclusive Gavin Duffy: From 'Dragons' Den' to the dark arts of a tough Presidential campaign 

There is an unexpected solemnity about Gavin Duffy, as he officially opens his campaign to seek a nomination to contest the Presidential election, which is expected to take place on October 28.

Artistic legacy of the Irish beauty with 'the exotic name' 

It was the sumptuous portrait of a beautiful woman dressed in Venetian carnival attire by the painter Sir Oswald Birley that caught the eye.

A sea dip is the last thing you can do for free 

Treading water in the slightly snot-coloured Irish Sea off Blackrock, Co Dublin, one of the other swimmers pointed to the clear blue sky, splashed the water and said: "They still haven't found a way to tax the sheer pleasure to enjoying something for free."

Ruth Ross, gardener and wartime codebreaker, leaves €4m 

The well-known gardening writer, horticulturist and wartime codebreaker Ruth Ross, whose son is Minister of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, left more than €4m in her will which went to probate in Dublin last week.

'Yesterday's man' planning to battle on in centre stage for some time to come 

Towards the end of his 1997 book Thanks a Million Big Fella, Sam Smyth concluded: "Then there's Michael Lowry, who after suffering personal and political disgrace faces financial ruin and possibly prison... Michael Lowry was yesterday's man before he was 44 years old."

Obituary: Judge whose one Irish rugby cap was filmed by Movietone 

JUDGE John Blayney, who has died aged 93, had the distinction of scoring a spectacular try in his only appearance for Ireland at Lansdowne Road in February 1950, after running 40 yards with the ball to cross the Scottish line at a time when such exploits were rare in rugby.

Sun, boaters and oysters come out for Bloomsday 

As if on cue, the "snot green sea" beneath the Martello Tower in Sandycove took on a Mediterranean-like hue as the sun came out to give a Bloomsday of "mild morning air".

A wealth of opportunities to dream of life in leafy Dublin 4 

Leafy Eglinton Road doesn't so much drip wealth as ooze it. It is quintessential Dublin 4 with its mixture of red-brick villas, semi-d's of a very different kind to the suburban estates on the outskirts of Dublin, and some modest, but expensive properties, at either end.

Revealed: Broadcaster Jimmy Magee leaves €1.7m in will 

Sports commentator and journalist Jimmy Magee left more than €1.7m in his will, according to documents lodged last week in the Probate Office in Dublin.

Portraits of the artist as friend and chronicler of his times 

There was a certain air of one-upmanship in the sunshine-bathed government guesthouse Farmleigh, at the opening of Anthony Palliser's 'Irish Portraits' exhibition.

'Evangelist for words' with a passion for life 

"Tom used to say the Greeks thought there was only one question worth asking about a man when he died: was he passionate?" Tom Murphy's widow, Jane Brennan, told the attendance at his funeral service yesterday. When they applauded, she continued: "Well, that answers that.".

Shrewd Magnier's art of picking out beauty, excellence and value 

When Modigliani's Reclining Nude was on display in Room 45 of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin for six years, it didn't cause anything like the stir that erupted after it was sold in Sotheby's "tepid sale" in New York last week for €133m, or indeed when the Parisian police closed down the gallery where it was first exhibited in 1917.

Dear Dot... the Irish friend with a very special place in the life of Kennedy clan 

To President of the United States John F Kennedy she was 'Dear Dot' - and his warm and informal letters to her in the wake of his Irish visit typified the close relationship between her and the Boston/Irish clan which lasted a lifetime.

Former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave left estate worth €33m 

Former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave has left more than €33m in his will, including €6,000 for Masses to be said for his soul.

Obituary: Tommy Wade 

The showjumper Tommy Wade on his ''glorified'' Connemara pony, Dundrum, not only electrified audiences at the annual Horse Show in the RDS, Dublin in the 1960s but can be credited with popularising the sport of showjumping, then regarded as an elitist pursuit of the Anglo-Irish ascendency.

Rolling Stones storm Croke Park and rock 70,000 with stunning show 

Archbishop Thomas Croke and Michael Cusack must have been spinning in their graves but that didn't bother the rubber-lipped Mick Jagger and his ageing band of British rockers, the Rolling Stones, when they stormed Croke Park with the opening chords of 'Sympathy for the Devil'.

Triumphal celebrations as heart is returned to cathedral 

After a sojourn of more than five years, the heart of St Laurence O'Toole was returned to Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin last Thursday evening with all the pomp and circumstance befitting an 800-year-old desiccated relic.

Maureen Haughey - wife of former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey - leaves €9m fortune 

Maureen Haughey, wife of the former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey, has left more than €9m in her will, one of the largest personal legacies recorded in the Probate Office this year.

O'Reilly comes home to old friends at Old Belvedere 

"I could not think of a nicer homecoming than you have given me here today," an emotional and entertaining Sir Anthony O'Reilly told an audience of old school and international rugby friends at the opening of the O'Reilly Room in his old clubhouse in Dublin yesterday.

Maureen Haughey, stoic wife of Charlie, leaves €9m fortune 

Maureen Haughey, wife of former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey, has left more than €9m in her will, according to papers lodged in the Probate Office in Dublin last week.

Big Tom MacBride: The giant of jive 

From the sophisticated radio and television studios where his music was rarely played to the by-ways around Oram where he was laid to rest last Friday, Big Tom exited stage left with a final chorus of Gentle Mother echoing behind him.

The last vaudevillian in town - the show must go on for Noel V Ginnity 

'I am the last of the vaudevillians," he says - and like most of his kind, Noel V Ginnity has that melancholy streak common to comedians, a moment when laughter turns to tears as he talks emotionally about a pivotal moment in life when he realised he'd almost thrown it all away.

Red Flag, Gatsby and the Dossier 

On Friday last, The Irish Times published almost a full-page interview with businessman and political activist Declan Ganley in which he claimed that he never had "personal animus" towards businessman Denis O'Brien, who recently had him "joined" in what are now "conspiracy" allegations in the High Court.

Raise a glass to new Good Friday drinking era 

I'm sitting in The Swan, a fine Victorian pub in Aungier Street, Dublin, having a usual Friday evening pint. But this Friday, it just doesn't quite seem the same.

Inside the text exchange at the heart of claims of 'a criminal conspiracy' 

'I'm good at this sort of s**t," declared Karl Brophy, the man behind Red Flag Consulting, in a text to the one-time Fianna Fail TD Colm Keaveney. They were texting back and forth about the billionaire businessman Denis O'Brien and how much he paid for his loans and the purchase of Siteserv from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), formerly Anglo Irish Bank.

Late Irish socialite Vi Lawlor (94) leaves €380k estate 

A glamorous socialite with a glass of "bubbles" in her hand, Vi Lawlor became a by-word for style with the social columnists at a time when celebrity was in its infancy in Ireland.

Liam Collins: Denis O'Brien's Red Flag legal action sets out web of texts and tales of intrigue 

The fascinating world where big business, lobbyists, politicians and the media intersect was aired over two days in the High Court last week, illuminating a web of texts, clandestine 'non-meetings' and secret briefings that led to front-page stories and headlines on television and radio news bulletins.

Leading clerics left contrasting fortunes in their wills 

Two of Dublin's most respected clergymen over recent decades, who died within months of each other, have left contrasting fortunes according to documents lodged in the Probate Office in Dublin last week.

Sun sets on gilded life of crown prince of Luggala 

Some of those who became lifelong friends (the poet John Montague and film-maker John Boorman among them) would at first dislike the young Garech Browne, believing him to be a trust fund toff playing at being Irish with his Aran sweaters, tweed suits, his interest in antique horse-drawn carriages and the lavish entertainments at his remote castellated Wicklow home.

Murdoch's Irish media arm under the spotlight over interference 

Whether or not newspapers can influence the outcome of an election or a referendum is arguable. But certainly the world's most powerful media mogul Rupert Murdoch believes they can, otherwise why would his newspapers continually intervene in everything from the Brexit referendum in Britain to the looming battle over the Eighth Amendment in Ireland?

Tangled up in a web of murder 

Catherine Nevin, who became known as 'The Black Widow' in sections of the media following the murder of her husband Tom at Jack White's Inn, near Brittas Bay, Co Wicklow, was convicted of his murder and conspiracy to murder after a lengthy and highly publicised trial nearly 18 years ago.

Unlocking land banks to bring life back to towns and cities 

We've all lived with Ireland's 'urban/rural divide' and claims that major infrastructure projects tend to go to Dublin, with the population shift which inevitably follows.

Historic Waterford's ambitious bid to build for a brighter future 

For historic reasons Waterford is lopsided, all on the south side of the deep River Suir which runs through the heart of the city. The north side was once the industrial port but when it moved to a new purpose-built site at Belview, in the early 1990s, the land on the north side of the river became largely redundant. Since then the city has continued to expand southwards into its Waterford hinterland.

Ireland Inc should sell AIB while the going is still good 

The sudden volatility in the financial markets tumbling all last week on Wall Street should be a warning to Paschal Donohoe and the Government that the time has probably arrived for the State to get serious about cashing in its chips and bailing out of Allied Irish Banks.

Carpet king Des leaves €13m in will and cash for 'Saint Matt' 

Carpet king Des Kelly left a gross estate of more than €13m in his will which included charitable bequests to two Dublin homeless shelters and €71,425 for the canonisation of Matt Talbot.

Obituary: Paddy Harte 

Paddy Harte, who has died aged 86, said he was persuaded to stand as a candidate for the Letterkenny ward of Donegal County Council only because his father James had twice failed to get elected and following his sudden death at the age of 49, “I simply wanted to complete something he had started”.

Sister Francis, the Irish nun who left a €10m fortune in her will 

An Irish nun has left more than €10m in her will.

Femme fatale shot to cult fame after a stormy start 

She was the most famous Irish actress most people never heard of.

Politicians and civil servants alone will never solve our housing crisis - so here's an idea... 

It should be very clear to us by now that politicians and civil servants cannot solve the housing crisis.

High Court dogfight ends in humiliation for Ryanair 

A casual observer might wonder why it took seven weeks, including 24 full days in the High Court in Dublin, to decipher an email headed: 'Pilot update: what the markets are saying about Ryanair'. Even some of those in court were perplexed by the length of a trial that was expected to last three weeks and ended in a humiliation for the Irish airline.

Ward’s road from Irish gentry to society pimp 

Stephen Ward, portrayed as a dark and malign figure in the life and downfall of the beautiful young Christine Keeler, reported here last week, was the wayward son of an English vicar and Irish mother, who came from a distinguished Irish landed family.

Turbulent spell ahead for Irish Times Trust after Examiner deal 

There was a glaring, if not unexpected, lack of analysis of Irish Times DAC's acquisition of Landmark Media Investments, the company behind the Irish Examiner newspaper and related provincial papers and radio interest, last Wednesday.

A journey into the future of city transport 

Before the first passenger-carrying tram glided from the GPO to Broombridge yesterday, the Taoiseach set guests at the official opening a riddle: "How many Ministers for Transport does it take to extend the Luas?"

Baby, it's cold outside - and that's just fine 

Ah, but it's very, very cold," they say. But nothing, I reply.

Husband's 'chattel case' court victory was turning point in women's rights 

Werner Braun was sitting on the bed waiting for his wilful wife Heide when she returned to her bedroom in the Imperial Hotel, Cork, where she had hid for a week to escape their crumbling marriage.

When stars ended Dublin nights with fine wine - or baked beans 

Walking through the streets of Dublin on Friday night, with young people spilling out of restaurants and bars, sipping pints and smoking cigarettes in the cool night air, suddenly transported me back to another time, another place, a drab city of the not-so-distant past that now seems like an alien land.

Porterhouse pub founder Oliver Hughes left over €20m in his will 

Colourful publican and businessman Oliver Hughes, founder of the Porterhouse pub chain and Dingle Distillery, has left more than €20m in his will, according to documents lodged in the Probate Office in Dublin.

A green prism of history held us for too long: now we take a wider view 

For those of us indoctrinated with claustrophobic nationalism, seeing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar wearing the 'shamrock poppy' in Dail Eireann last week, ahead of Remembrance Sunday today, was a milestone in our maturity as a nation.

Strong-minded and brave kidnap victim Jennifer Guinness left €9m 

Jennifer Guinness, who was at the centre of an eight-day kidnap drama in the mid-1980s, left €9m in her will according to documents lodged in the Probate Office last week.

Johnny Ronan's Tara Tower will cast a long shadow over the future of the city 

The future of Dublin's skyline hung in the balance last week as one of the country's Lazarus-like developers, Johnny Ronan, battled to save his 22-storey development on an elbow of the River Liffey facing Liberty Hall.

'The Saint' writer's widow left almost €400,000 in Irish estate 

Audrey Charteris, wife of the creator of debonair television sleuth Simon Templar from The Saint, has left estate in Ireland valued at nearly €400,000.

'Examiner' woes that could sink 'The Irish Times' 

There is a widespread view that The Irish Times is sailing perilously close to the edge with its 'exclusive' talks to purchase Landmark Media Investments, the disaster-prone publishers of the Irish Examiner newspaper.

NCB and Quinn veteran Killeen's 'Post' exit plans 

If Conor Killeen harboured any ambitions to become a newspaper magnate, then the changing of the guard at Key Capital appears to have put an end to them.

Chuck Feeney: Giving it all away 

The greatest distraction about Atlantic Philanthropies is, ironically, its founder Charles 'Chuck' Feeney, the secretive Irish-American billionaire who gave all his money away, yet left nothing behind bearing his name.

Cosgrave laid to rest in simple ceremony devoid of pomp 

The former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave was laid to rest yesterday in Dublin in the way he wanted - with a simple religious ceremony and none of the trappings or pomp of a State funeral.

Liam Cosgrave, 1920-2017 

Liam Cosgrave, who has died in Dublin at the age of 97, was a former Fine Gael leader, Taoiseach and member of the 'old guard' of the party, which he led from 1965 to 1977.

A 'no nonsense' farewell to one of our greatest leaders 

When his wife Vera died late last year Liam Cosgrave rang his friend, Monsignor John Wilson, in Ballymore Eustace and told him he wanted a low- key funeral for his wife and for himself when his time came: "no speeches and no nonsense", which, the priest added, "was the type of man he was."

What horses and art tell us about the other side of O'Leary 

If not exactly the end of Michael O'Leary, this week looked very like the beginning of the end.

'Memory Man is dead...but what memories he has left behind him' 

No Mass booklet was needed to remind mourners at his funeral yesterday of what he looked or sounded like.