Famed for being Ireland’s most expensive house after it sold for a record €58 million in 2005, Walford on Shrewsbury Road later became synonymous with the trans-Atlantic court battles of Sean Dunne, the bankrupt property developer once dubbed the “Baron of Ballsbridge”. But a US court ruling this week may finally close the book on the Walford saga. Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer has struck out a federal lawsuit brought by Dunne in which he claimed his minor children by his second marriage to Gayle Killilea had a priority interest in the property. The developer did not have the legal standing…

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