The Rt Hon the Lord Ballyedmond, OBE’s Biography
- Forename(s)
- Edward Enda Haughey
- Sex
- Male
- Decorations
- OBE (1987), JP (1986)
- Date of Birth
- 5/1/1944
- Foretitle(s)
- Baron (Life Peer UK 2004), of Mourne in the County of Down;
- Surname
- BALLYEDMOND
- Style
- The Rt Hon the Lord Ballyedmond, OBE
- Career
- dir: Norbrook Laboratories Ltd 1969– (chm 1980-), Shorts Brothers plc 1989–2008; chm: Norbrook Holdings Ltd 1988-, Ballyedmond Castle Farms Ltd 1988-, Haughey Airports Ltd 2000–08, Haughey Air Ltd 2000-, Cumberland Breweries Ltd 2008-; chm Irish Aviation Authy 1993–94; dir NI Advsy Bd Bank of Ireland 1986–99; appointed to Irish Senate 1994 (ret 2002); memb: Forum for Peace and Reconciliation 1996-, Oireachtas Ctee for Foreign Affrs 1997-, British–Irish Inter–Parly Body 1997-, Inst of British–Irish Studies 2000-; hon consul for Chile in NI 1992, hon consul for Chile in N of England 2008; vice–pres RCVS Tst, tstee Dublin City Univ 1995-, perm vice–pres Anglo Chilean Soc 1995; Hon DBA, Hon LLD Nat Univ of Ireland 1997, Hon DSc Univ of Ulster 2008; hon fell Royal Vet Coll London, distinguished fell Griffin Coll Dublin, hon fell entrepreneurship Royal Veterinary Coll Univ of London; hon assoc Br Veterinary Assoc 2004, hon assoc North of Ireland Veterinary Assoc 2008, hon memb Assoc of Veterinary Surgeons Practising in NI; Hon Col Royal Irish Regt 2 Battalion 2008; Hon FRCSI 1998, Hon ARCVS, FInstD, FIAM, FIMgt, Hon FRSC 2008; Order of Bernardo O‘Higgins (Chile) 1995