Profile The Hughes family: How the west was won

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Newsworthiness: the Mayo industrialists have spent €10 million on Westport House

It was an emotional end to a long ordeal for the Browne family. At a press conference in their ancestral home on January 27, a branch of Mayo’s business and political aristocracy officially took up the mantle from ancient Anglo Irish aristocracy, with the Hughes family agreeing to buy the 400-year-old Westport House estate ...