Millionaire leaves her brother €45k

An 80-year-old man told the High Court he felt he had won the Lotto and lost the ticket after reading his millionaire sister’s will.

Tipperary native and bachelor Joseph Dee, who worked all his life as a factory machinist in Dublin, said he had been stunned at receiving only €45,000 of the €3.5m his sister, Mary Coffey, distributed in a seven-page will.

High Court President Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns refused an application by Mr Dee to condemn his sister’s will on the alleged grounds she was not mentally capable, was extremely easily led, and had been badly advised.