“I had no choice. It breaks my heart we are here in this court case today,” Gerard Lane told the High Court on Friday morning, as his testimony wound down. “If I had not started these proceedings, I was totally at the mercy of Mr Connolly and it was clear that he would not give me one euro after all I have done for Tinakilly,” the businessman continued. It was the last day of evidence in Lane’s bitter legal dispute against Tinakilly House co-owner Denis Connolly over the ownership and control of the Co Wicklow hotel property. And Lane, an…