Galway Bay Fm newsroom-The Comer Brothers, Luke and Brian, from Glenamaddy are Galway richest, and number 14 in Ireland’s Top 300 Rich List published at the weekend.
The brothers estimate that their assets are worth three billion Euro and Luke Comer said some time ago that “a conservative estimation” is that they would be worth “around 1.35 billion Euro”.
According to the Top 300 Rich List in The Sunday Independent those figures will have risen but there will be debt also.
The Comer brothers are builders and developers with properties here, including Galway city, the UK, Germany and North Africa.
The next highest Galway person on the rich list is another North Galway resident Declan Ganley of the telecommunications firm Rivada, who comes in at number 53 on 275 million Euro.
After that Pat McDonagh of Supermacs is the next Galway man on the rich list at number 126 on 106 million Euro while namesake Galway city merchant and property developer Thomas McDonagh is on the list at 194 as a new entry on 75 million Euro.
Galway computer cabinet manufacture and property developer Joseph Higgins, who owens the Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre, is at number 235 on 59 million Euro.
Enda O’Coineen, best known to many for his trans-Atlantic and other ocean races makes a splash on the latest rich list at number 265. He is credited with success in the pub business as well as property, renewables and engineering including an oil refinery in his native Galway.