Twosugars
12-09-2019, 12:12 PM
Sinn Féin has paid tribute to an English man who left the party at least £1.5m in his will as a “rebel with a cause”.
In what is believed to be the largest known political donation in Northern Ireland, Billy Hampton, who died in Wales last year aged 82, bequeathed the money to the Irish republican party as a protest against the political establishment
More here https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/12/english-man-left-15m-to-sinn-fein-in-snub-to-uk-establishment
In what is believed to be the largest known political donation in Northern Ireland, Billy Hampton, who died in Wales last year aged 82, bequeathed the money to the Irish republican party as a protest against the political establishment
More here https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/12/english-man-left-15m-to-sinn-fein-in-snub-to-uk-establishment