News in Brief
Team Ireland flies to Transplant Games
Messages of goodwill poured in yesterday as members of Transplant Team Ireland flew out for the 21st World Transplant Games in Malaga, southern Spain.
The 27-strong team was sent encouragement by the Spanish ambassador and the cream of the sporting world including Martin O’Neill, Ruby Walsh and Mickey Harte. They will compete against almost 1,000 participants from more than 50 countries. The Irish Kidney Association has co-ordinated Transplant Team Ireland’s participation.
Man dies at Westmeath music festival
A 31-year-old man died after he collapsed at the Body & Soul festival in Co Westmeath yesterday. He was found at 3pm in an unresponsive state, and received emergency treatment at a medical tent before being rushed to hospital. Gardai are not treating the death as suspicious.
No winner of €4.9m Lotto jackpot
There was no winner of last night’s €4,918,696 Lotto jackpot. The numbers were 3, 20, 31, 32, 43, 46 (bonus 19). Plus One were 3, 7, 13, 24, 35, 41 (bonus 29). Plus Two were 3, 5, 22, 26, 34, 36 (bonus 2). The raffle drew 8377.
New York’s first archbishop honoured
Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh, yesterday unveiled a blue plaque in St Macartan’s Church, in Augher, Co Tyrone, to commemorate the first Archbishop of New York John Hughes. Yesterday marked the 220th anniversary of his birth in Tyrone.
PR guru Green first Irishman to go global
Vice-President of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland Justin Green has become the first Irish person to be elected to the board of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management.
The Global Alliance is the confederation of the world’s major public relations and communication management associations and institutions, representing 160,000 practitioners and academics around the world.
Schoolboy leaves €1.4m in will
A 12-year-old student who was born severely disabled has left €1,389,411 in his will. Sean Walsh, of Graydon Manor, Robertstown, Co Dublin, who died on December 4, 2016, was awarded €2m in a 2010 settlement with The Coombe Hospital, which denied liability.
Other wills: Niall Webb, doctor, Sandycove, Dublin, €2,108,451; Joan Artus (otherwise Mullaney), doctor, Marlborough Rd, Dublin, €1,638,552; Kathleen Egan, housewife, Stillorgan Rd, Dublin, €1,305,313; Joseph Nelson Kingston, welder, Kildarra, Bandon, Co Cork, €1,008,582; Thomas Corcoran, agricultural officer, Mullinavat, Kilkenny, €982,818; and Patrick J Connolly, horse trader and trainer, Kinvarra, Co Galway, €348,856.
The value of estates may include property, including the family home, and should not be regarded as cash amounts