O’Callaghan, who came from Tralee, was an IRA member between 1970 and 1985 and a Garda informant from 1979 to 1985. He died in 2017 by drowning after suffering a heart attack at the age of 63 while ...

The life of the Aga Khan was a paradox: he was both a serial philanderer and a generous philanthropist, a pleasure-seeking jet-setter and a leader of a mystical Islamic sect.

particularly after he brought famed racehorse Shergar to his Ballymany Stud Farm near Newbridge, Co Kildare, from where the horse was kidnapped 42 years ago this week. The kidnapping and ...

He was a spiritual leader to 15 million people and a multi-billionaire, but the Aga Khan will forever be linked to the fabled Shergar, the prized stallion believed to have been stolen by the IRA.

Aga Khan leads jockey Walter Swinburn on Shergar after record 10-length Derby win in 1981Credit: Action Images - Reuters He was the owner of kidnapped Derby winner Shergar who refused to pay the ...

He was also an owner of Shergar, the Derby-winning racehorse who was stolen from his stud farm in Co Kildare, in 1983 and never seen again. Shergar won the Derby at Epsom by 10 lengths in June ...

The kidnappers supposedly held the head groom, Jim Fitzgerald, at gunpoint and demanded that he take them to the prized racehorse ... or I.R.A., were behind Shergar’s kidnapping. However, in the end, ...

Paris (AFP) – Racehorse billionaire and Islamic spiritual ... He will be, in the public's eye, forever best remembered for the ill-fated Shergar, who clinched a mind-bogglingly easy win at ...

in itself raised a major question mark," he said in a book published in 2011 celebrating 50 years in the racehorse business. He will be, in the public's eye, forever best remembered for the ill ...

The Aga Khan, one of racing’s most renowned owner-breeders – whose long list of champions includes Shergar – has died at the of 88. He became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions ...