Hotelier Denis Connolly has denied selling Spanish resort Finca Monasterio under the nose of his business partner, Gerard Lane, in a premeditated attempt to defeat Lane’s legal claim for increased equity in the hotel venture. “It’s so far-fetched, it is verging on absurdity,” the entrepreneur, who also co-owns the luxury Wicklow wedding resort Tinakilly House, told the High Court on Thursday under cross-examination. On his fourth and final day in the witness box, Connolly said the reason he sold Finca last year was that he was under immense pressure from the expensive and “totally unnecessary” legal action brought by Lane.…

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