Edward Haughey, Among Ireland’s Richest Men, Dies at 70

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Edward Haughey, the Northern Irish peer who founded a veterinary pharmaceutical manufacturing business to become one of Ireland’s richest men, has died. He was 70.

Haughey, chairman and chief executive officer of Norbrook Laboratories Ltd., one of the largest closely-held pharmaceutical companies in the world, died in a helicopter crash yesterday in eastern England, Ulster Unionist Party former leader Reg Empey said.