“Given the way this case has run, I’m going to assume the worst.” This was just one of the grim pronouncements made by Justice Eileen Roberts of the commercial division of the High Court when presented with the disputatious co-owners of Tinakilly House. At another point in the hearing, she remarked that a proposal for adjudication “has all the ingredients of a Pyrrhic victory on both sides”. Justice Roberts ruled in June that the business relationship between Gerard Lane and Denis Connolly was a partnership, and would have to be unwound as such. In August, however, they were back in…

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