Dolores splashes her cash on third house
It is the third home the €115 million lottery winner has purchased within the last two months.
In November she completed the purchase of a ranch-style bungalow over looking Lough Derg for €1.7m.
A short time before that she bought a €250,000 house in Castleconnell for her 26-year-old son, Gary.
But this week she tied up the sale of a two-storey, six-bedroomed detached house in a newly-built exclusive development at Clarina Village, six miles from the city, for €500,000.
She has bought the house for the eldest of her six children, Dawn, aged 28.
The house is one of 17 in a cul-de-sac development which was sold off plans for €450,000.
However, one of the original purchasers is understood to have sold on to Dolores for €500,000 before turning the key on the door.
A decorator was yesterday completing internal painting of the house.
Dolores, aged 46, and her husband Adrian have four other children, Kim 22, Kevanne 20, Dean 15 and Lee 13.
Dolores still lives in her modest €130,000 bungalow at St Patrick’s Road in Limerick but is expected to move shortly to her new home, Lough Derg Hall, near Killaloe.
It is understood actor Robert de Niro once expressed an interest in buying the house, which stands on 38 aces and is surrounded by high walls. It is believed that a security company has already installed a network of CCTV cameras.
Lough Derg Hall boasts six en-suite bedrooms, each with four-poster beds.
The house she has purchased for Dawn also has six bedrooms, all en-suite.
It is part of a huge €100m development at Clarina which, when completed, will include a hotel, community centre and creche.
Gary, for whom Dolores bought a house in Castleconnell, was at the centre of an abduction scare last October when he moved out of his rented home in Castletroy on the advice of gardaí.
He moved back within days and has since gone to live in his new home in Castleconnell village with his partner. The house is a short distance from The Worlds End mansion bought by comedian Pat Shortt for €2.7m.
Dawn’s new neighbours in Clarina were yesterday unaware that one of Ireland’s wealthiest women had bought a house there.
One woman said: “We knew that one house had been bought and resold.”
Paddy Tobin, the Limerick publican who has been a close advisor to Dolores since her big win, was yesterday abroad on holiday.
He helped pick out Lough Derg Hall as a suitable residence for Dolores.
She had told Paddy that she had very little privacy at the old family home in St Patrick’s Road but told her old neighbours she will hold on to the house and keep in contact.
