# Charity to scoop €10 million

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/06/22/charity-scoop-e10-million/
- Published: 2005-06-22T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A Galway publican’s generosity is set to provide a windfall estimated at €10 million
for the local branch of St Vincent de Paul. The charity was left a pub by Maureen
O’Connell, a spinster who died in 1998.**

The Galway city centre pub left in the will will be sold later this year. Legal 
issues delayed the sale until this year.

Ms O’Connell had been in a nursing home before her death and had no close relatives.
The property includes apartments as well as the pub.

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St Vincent de Paul had no comment to make on the bequest. SVP is one of the biggest
recipients of charitable bequests in Ireland.

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