Francesca Comyn

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Francesca Comyn

Handshakes, photographs, and almost instantaneous texts of congratulations captured the jubilance among Gerry Adams’s lawyers as the news sank in outside Court 24 that they had won a resounding victory for their client. A vindicated Adams remained sombre, however. Legs crossed, he sat at the back of Court 24 and looked at his phone as the jury verdict landed after six hours and thirty-nine minutes of deliberations that began on Thursday morning.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Francesca Comyn

US-based businessman Maurice Regan intimated he was going to top by €5 million John Magnier’s bid for the Barne Estate a week after the bloodstock magnate allegedly closed the sale, the High Court has heard. It happened in the car home from Cork airport on August 29, 2023. Magnier’s son-in-law, David Wachman, returned a missed call from Regan, and Magnier heard the conversation unfold on speaker phone.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Francesca Comyn

It may be the subject of a complex and bitter multi-million euro legal battle, but John Magnier’s reasons for wanting to buy the Barne Estate in Co Tipperary could not have been stated more simply in court. It adjoins his land on either side. “It is a very good farm and right beside where we operate from. It would be obvious for us to be interested in it,” the bloodstock tycoon told the High Court. “I grew up as a farmer and really like farming,” he told his senior counsel Paul Gallagher.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Francesca Comyn

US-based Irish businessman Maurice Regan launched a “full-frontal attack” on the sale of a Co Tipperary estate to bloodstock billionaire John Magnier, the High Court was told. So much so that local estate agent John Stokes appeared “visibly shaken” when he visited Magnier following calls from Regan, lawyers for the Coolmore boss claim. Regan also allegedly arranged for crime journalist Paul Williams to contact Stokes, the court heard.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Francesca Comyn

The idea was to create jobs and lure in tourists by developing a state-of-the-art whiskey distillery, visitor centre, and business park in Balbriggan, north Dublin. Andrew Cassidy of the Co Louth architects firm Cassidy Consultants was engaged to prepare the drawings and planning application, overhauling the site at Stephenstown owned by James McNally, a Co Dublin-based businessman who says he inherited the lands in 2019.