A business relationship that started with a chance meeting in a hotel bar in Tinakilly House, Co Wicklow back in May 2013, has led to this – a legal dispute and a 125-page High Court judgment. That is the jumping-off point for Justice Eileen Roberts’ lengthy decision on the irretrievable breakdown of relations between Gerard Lane, an 80-year-old wealthy Irish entrepreneur based in the Philippines, and his erstwhile business associate Denis Connolly, 64, a businessman with prior experience in hospitality.  Together, they owned Tinakilly, the country-house wedding resort near Rathnew, and later a Spanish hotel, Finca Monasterio near Marbella, now…

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