Luke Comer interview: ‘I play the world, as long the market has been good there before, I will buy’ From humble beginnings, the Galway developer now presides over a vast property and business empire. Here, he holds forth on the future of the high street, old-fashioned Irish begrudgery, his enduring love of horseracing and the deal Tully Rinckey, a law firm he champions, has reached with the international company Hatstone 25th April, 2021
Former plasterer and now billionaire property developer Luke Comer, with Grainne Loughnane, managing partner of Tully Rinckey s Dublin office, at his 300 acre stud farm in Kilternan, County Wicklow. Picture: Barry Cronin
Keeping it in the Family: James Maguire & Sons Family Butchers, Millmount, Mullingar
James Maguire & Sons Family Butchers, Millmount, Mullingar
Kyle Maguire, Proprietor of James Maguire & Sons Family Butchers are the perfect example of what “shop local” means and are steadfast about what it takes to keep business and the local economy ticking over. Get to know a little bit more about this dynamic young team …
1. When was the business established and were any previous generations involved?
The business was established in September 1999 in Mullingar by Kyle’s father James. There were no other generations involved in the business; James set the trend!
Bernard Fox s Belclare-cross ewe and six lambs, pictured with May, Brian, Rosie and Bernard.
Two ewes in Meath have given birth to sextuplets (six) in the past two weeks on farms in Kildalkey and Longwood.
Bernard Fox told the Irish Farmers Journal that his Belclare-cross ewe had been scanned with four lambs.
“The ewe lambed on Wednesday 24 February and it was some surprise to see six lambs at foot. The most I’d ever seen before was five.
“My neighbours, Shane and Pauric Monaghan, are doing their Leaving Cert and have been helping me lamb while studying at home.
“The two boys lambed this super ewe for me and without them they all wouldn’t have survived.
Born on December 18, 1931, Mary was originally from Ballyellis, Carnew, Co Wicklow.
Her father was Michael Gregan, a farmer by profession, while her mother Anne was an O Dowd, from Brittas, Co Wicklow.
Her parents moved from Ballyellis to Umrigar, in Co Wicklow, to set up their home and Mary was the fifth child in a family of seven.
She received her primary and secondary education in Carnew and after secondary school, along with her sisters, she attended the Domestic Economy School, St Louis Convent, in Ramsgrange.
It was there that young women were trained in practical household skills including cookery, laundry, poultry keeping, dairy and needlework.
Michael Clifford: Garda corruption probe is an unedifying mess
An investigation that began life as a probe into alleged high level corruption in the force has split in two: One relates to organised crime, but the other is now focusing on wiping out penalty points, Mick Clifford reports
In the Autumn of 2018, members of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation landed in Limerick to investigate a garda who was alleged to have links with elements involved in organised crime. Picture: Dan Linehan
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The definition of corruption within An Garda Síochána was raised at an infamous meeting of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in 2014.