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. “The unwritten implication was that his exclusion from the bidding process was somehow unlawful,” lawyer Paul Gallagher said, adding that Regan had the “grandiose and mistaken belief that one couldn’t sell land privately…

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