Total Irish billionaire wealth at more than €50bn last year, says Oxfam Ireland
Irish billionaire wealth stood at €50.2bn at the end of last year, €13bn up on the previous year, said Oxfam. Photograph: Getty Images
‘Rome is a fantastic city to live in, but it’s very complicated. It’s a mess of a place. Madrid is clean. Everything works’He controls India’s engineering and construction conglomerate, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, which he inherited from his father, Pallonji Mistry, in 2022. Mr Mistry is an Irish citizen through his father, who married Irish-born Pat “Patsy” Perin Dubash.
Kingspan founder Eugene Murtagh , telecoms magnate Denis O’Brien , heir to the Campbell’s Soup empire John Dorrance , financier Dermot Desmond and the founder of hedge fund firm Egerton Capital, John Armitage , make up the rest, according to Forbes.
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