Man to face trial for fraud
Irish fighter promo firm’s massive cash pile revealed
LOTTO fever is building all over the country as players are preparing for a big weekend with not one but two huge lifealtering jackpots on offer.
Tonight’s EuroMillions draw has a guaranteed jackpot of a staggering €130million while Saturday’s Lotto draw of an estimated €18m is the second highest jackpot in the history of the Lotto game here.
Since the EuroMillions game launched in Ireland in 2004, there have been 16 Irish EuroMillions jackpot winners.
If tomorrow night’s staggering €130m jackpot is won in Ireland, we could see a new Irish winner added to the roll call of jackpot wins. Meanwhile Meanwhile, the curr current
Lot Lotto jac jackpot has been rolling for over three t month months since Wd Wednesday,
June 9.
Winners
So far this year, there have been five Lotto jackpot wins by players in Limerick, Kilkenny, Westmeath, Cork and Galway.
In the history of the Lotto game in Ireland, only one jackpot in excess of €18 million has ever been won which was in June 2008 when the Dan Morrissey syndicate from Carlow scooped a whooping €18,963,441.
A single winner of Saturday night’s lifechanging €18 million estimated jackpot would find themselves at number two on the list of all-time highest wins since the game launched in Ireland in 1988.
A 64-YEAR- OLD man accused of running a €1.2m bogus legal advice practice has been sent forward for trial.
David Williams, who is from England but has an address at Sroughan, Lacken, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, is charged with 19 fraud offences.
He appeared again at Blanchardstown District Court and had a book of evidence served on him. The Director of Public Prosecutions directed trial on indictment.
Judge Gerard Jones granted a trial order sending Mr Williams forward to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court where he will face his next hearing on November 26.
A SPORTS promotion company owned by MMA star Conor McGregor boosted its cash pile by more than € 9.5million last year.
McGr egor Spor t s and Entertainment Limited made a profit of almost €740,000 in 2020, and saw its bank balance grow from €36,555 to nearly €9.6m.
The firm is the 33-year- old’s main company in Ireland and is involved in the production of online news, promotions and endorsements in the sports sector.
McGregor returned to the octagon in January 2020 after a brief retirement, defeating Donald Cerrone via technical knockout after 40 seconds of the first round.
He reportedly made $30 million (€25.577m) from the fight.
The Crumlin- born competitor was listed as the world’s highestpaid athlete by Forbes earlier this
HEAVY HITTER: Conor McGregor with cash and (right) he reportedly made $30 million from fight against Donald Cerrone in 2020 year, earning $180m.
He also reportedly sold a majority stake in his whiskey company in April for around €500m.
Accounts for his Irish sports promotion company show that annual profits increased by nearly 39 per cent last year to €739,239.
Meanwhile, the firm’s cash pile soared to almost €9.6m.
Debts
Prepayments and money owed to the company by debtors amounted to €4.8m. However, its debts rose from €5.1m to over €13.3m.
At the end of 2020, it had accumulated profits of € 608,690, compared to accumulated losses of €130,649 on December 31, 2019.
While McGregor is the sole shareholder in the company, its directors are listed as Dee Devlin, his long-term partner, and his friend Alan Geraghty.
Directors were paid remuneration of €177,333 last year.
Having announced his retirement from MMA in March 2019 prior to his return in January
2020, the former plumber announced that he was once more retiring from the octagon in June 2020.
He emerged from retirement again in January of this year, losing to Dustin Poirier in the first knockout loss of his career.
He faced Porier again in July and lost by technical knockout again after the fight was stopped due to McGregor breaking his tibia.