It is “beyond doubt” a deal for the sale of the Barne lands was concluded at Coolmore on the evening of August 22, 2023, lawyers for bloodstock billionaire John Magnier have told the High Court. In his closing address to the judge, Paul Gallagher, senior counsel for the Coolmore boss, said the evidence shows the parties agreed that they shook on a €15 million deal for the 751-acre estate in Co Tipperary.  The language and events before and in the immediate aftermath of the meeting between Magnier and the hereditary heirs of the estate, Richard Thomson-Moore and his wife Anna,…

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