Tests fail to dash family’s hopes of inheriting €160m

MANY people may have thought a family’s quest for a €160 million fortune was dead and buried following a DNA test.

But it has taken yet another twist, which the Cork family hope will finally provide them with the ultimate proof of their right to the estate of a wealthy American recluse, Ellen O’Regan.

She emigrated to America in the late 1800s and married a retired policeman who amassed a fortune in property in Savannah, Georgia.