Mary Haughey, Baroness Ballyedmond (born December 1947) is an Irish and British billionaire heiress from Northern Ireland who is the deputy chairman of Norbrook Laboratories. She is currently the sixth richest person in

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and the richest person in Northern Ireland. Born Mary Gordon Young in December 1947, she attended Newry High School where she was Head Girl. She then trained as a solicitor and was a part-time lecturer in law at

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. In 1972, she married

Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond Edward Enda Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, OBE, FRCVS, (5 January 1944 – 13 March 2014) was an Irish-British entrepreneur and politician. With an estimated personal wealth of €780 million (£650 million/USD$1,078 million), he was the second-r ...

. Following his death in a helicopter crash on 14 March 2014, she inherited his wealth. According to The ''

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'' in 2019 her net worth was estimated at £1.638 billion.

Personal life

She has three children; Caroline, a practicing barrister in London, Edward a qualified barrister and James a qualified medical doctor. James and Edward are currently directors of Norbrook.

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