Sexton bags €2.8M in a rugged year of finances

RUGBY LEGEND: Johnny

JOHNNY Sexton’s management company enjoyed a bumper year in 2021 as profits rose by some €350,000, pushing up the total cash pile to nearly €2.8m.

Ireland rugby captain Sexton’s JAS Management and Promotions

Ltd recorded profits of €349,794 in the 12 months to September 30, 2021.

The profit represents a 38.5 per cent increase on the profits of €252,520 in the prior 12 months.

The cash pile at the business last year increased by €326,539 from €1.61m to €1.94m.

During the same period, the value of the company’s financial assets decreased from €930,461 to €757,455.

Sexton sits on the board of the firm with his wife, Laura and aggregate pay to directors last year more than doubled from €39,202 to €82,859.

Sexton - who turned 37 last month - was a relative late-comer to the international scene and has been making up for lost time in the commercial world.

The €2.79m in accumulated profits at

Sexton’s firm compares to accumulated profits of €476,099 at the firm at the end of 2014.

Deals

BEAUTY queen Rosanna Davison’s Ukrainian surrogate has broken her silence for the first time — as she opens up on the surrogacy and fleeing Kherson.

The pair have appeared for the first time together in an interview with Irish Country Magazine, out now.

Speaking ahead of the publication publishing the interview, Rosanna said: “Bursting with love and gratitude for this cover with @ anastasiia. berezan and very special interview.

“Thank you @irishcountrymag for giving us both the opportunity, space and compassion to tell our stories.

“It was a very emotional experience for both of us.”

The 38-year-old said the interview has given Anastasiia a chance to “share her unbelievable story of courage and strength escaping Kherson City in Ukraine” with her family and pet dog.

In May, Anastasiia and her family fled the Ukrainian war with Rosanna and Wes looking after them after she gave birth to the couple’s first daughter Sophia in 2019.

She said: “I can’t even begin to explain the admiration and respect I have for her.”

Rosanna said that Anastasiia helped her and Wes when “we needed her most” for their “muchlonged baby girl”, Sophia, who was born November 2019.

Job

Rosanna previously told us how Anastasiia’s partner found a job quite quickly after they arrived in Ireland.

She said: “They’re really exploring now.

“They’ve been on the Luas, the dart, the bus and her partner has a job now and her little girl is in school so they are really settling in.”