A Commercial Court judge has “very strongly” urged the parties behind a multi-million euro family hotel business to re-engage in mediation to resolve a bitter rift between the shareholders. Justice David Barniville made the comments while setting down a schedule for a full hearing of the oppression row embroiling Foxfield Inns, the company behind the four star Ashling Hotel in Dublin and the Imperial Hotel on Eyre Square in Galway. Foxfield is controlled by the Flannery family and has a wholly-owned subsidiary, Maplestar, which runs the Eglinton Hotel in Salthill as a direct provision centre. The four Flannery siblings are…

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