The Seanchaí, Writers' week 1981and rich Galway men with a Listowel Connection

In the John B. Keane room at The Seanchaí

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Front and back covers of Listowel Writers' Week brochure 1981

And the inside pages

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Galway Millionaires with  a Listowel Connection

Galway brothers Luke and Brian Comer are among the richest men in Ireland, with an estimated wealth of €675 million. 

They are among fourteen individuals and families either from Galway or currently living here, who have a combined fortune of just under €1.4 billion.

The Comers are former plasterers from Glenamaddy and featured in 16th place in the ‘Ireland’s Rich List 2014’, published by the Sunday Independent.

The Comer brothers – the main backers of the  Galway FC League of Ireland team – earned their fortune by developing properties in the UK in the 1980s, before buying an extensive portfolio of office blocks, almost 30 shopping centres and hotels in the UK and Germany.

The proceeds from selling-off some of their assets have been pumped back into Ireland over the past two years, and their purchases in Galway include the ‘Odeon syndicate’ site in Eyre Square, the Connacht Hotel on the Dublin Road, the former Corrib Great Southern Hotel, the Kingston Hall and Silver Seas apartment developments in Knocknacarra, Bun na Leaca in Newcastle and Howley Square in Oranmore.

In 2014 they were now valued at €675m – that’s up €300m on last year.

 (Story and photo: The Connaught Tribune)

The Listowel Connection? Luke and Brian are married to Listowel sisters whom they met when working in Listowel on an extension to Kerry Ingredients in the late 1970s.

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St. John's from the steps of Listowel Castle