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U2 ARE THE richest entertainers in Ireland with a combined wealth of €645 according to the 2017 Sunday Times Irish Rich List.
The list surveys the wealth of the 300 richest individuals and families in Ireland in a range of areas including entertainment, sport, business, technology and construction.
One Direction’s Niall Horan is the only person under 40 on the Richest Entertainers List, securing a place among the top 10. Country music Donegal singer Daniel O’Donnell joins him on the list with an estimated wealth of €31m.
Actors including Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Farrell also appear on the Richest Entertainers List.
Daniel Day-Lewis and his wife Rebecca Miller, who have a home in Wicklow since in the 1990s, come in at 8th place with a fortune of €55m between them.
Alastair McCall, Editor of The Sunday Times Rich List, says: “U2’s status as one of Ireland’s most recognisable exports is confirmed by their position at the top of our Entertainers’ Rich List, accounting in their own right for more than 30% of the wealth measured.
They are to Ireland what Abba were to Sweden in the 1970s – a global brand with instant recognition.
This is the 21st edition of The Sunday Times Irish Rich List. It has been compiled using a wide range of accounts, annual reports, shareholder filings and other sources as well as usually private information shared by those who feature on the list.
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€645mln is a lot of money. Clearly U2 are great money managers and that includes tax efficiency…..da
The rich & Atlantic Ocean won’t give you a drop of water to drink.
The rich & the Atlantic won’t give us a drop of water to drink
Tax, pox, homelessness, pontification. The next 100+ comments summed up!
Immigrants
Isis and Russia surely!?
Tax dodging pontificating parasites. Some good tunes though in fairness.
@Obi:
Something about the EU and FG being responsible…
Well Ireland is a tax haven by design and FG and FF policy.
@Wally Houlihan: You annoy the b0ll1x off me with your copy and paste type rants! But I have to admire your passion for what you believe in. Get off the journal and put that energy into action and maybe things will change,
At least they pay some tax eh Wally, unlike lifetime dole boys scratching their arses moaning about the government.
Wally it’s also a welfare state thanks to FF and FG policies.
You couldn’t have but it any better @canuckandgo, get of the journal Wally and off the dole
Meh, I’d have a new car every year and the mortgage paid off if I didn’t pay any tax.
We all have to pay tax but some just choose to pay it in The Netherlands while the compliant buy their tickets on line and those that fail complain to Joe Duffy…
I find U2′s music very taxing on the brain.
I won €25 on a scratch card, why am I not on the list?
Probably because you waste money on scratch cards
First person to mention TAX loses.
Is that you then?
Why does anyone care. As I saw on a wall in Dublin last week “Bono is a pox bottle”
Cue the haters !!
First to mention TAX loses.
No funnier even after the second edit.
What!! trump and his policies haven’t got blamed for this by the leftists on this site yet?
B Gaffn,…or Brexit, or Climate Change. If they’re this quiet, they’re obviously plotting something.
Down with the British
And the Romans! What have they ever done for us??
They left us alone……
One thing about Bono: he’s no Daniel O’Donnell.
poor bono. still a nauseating fool…
20mins in and U2 seem to be weathering the storm well…… The haters must be out working or something !
*yawn*
Most of their money came from the investment in Facebook which gave them a huge return.
Only Bono had shares in Facebook
A load of nonessential guess work by one of Murdocks lackies
@Martin Sinnott:
Are you on the list?
Fact, in Ireland all artists are exempt from tax. This covers painters making no money to sold writers cashing in. It’s a great idea and helps keep the arts alive. One about 1% of artists make a fortune QED even though u2 are exempt they still pay more tax in this country than the average person via there other investments and business
Apparently a lot lot of wee Daniels fortune is down to the fact that he doesn’t own any homes he just travels around from B and B to B and B so no mortgage or property tax, genius!
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