Cork exhumation may decide fate of $165m inheritance

A body was due to be exhumed in Cork this morning as part of a claim to a $165m (€139.5m) inheritance.

Sixty-two-year-old Dermot O’Regan, from Ovens in Co Cork has fought a 20-year-old legal battle to claim the money since the death of Irish emigrant Marry Ellen Sheehan in the US in 1983.