The secret settlement was reached just before midnight on April 18, 2019. Veteran businessman Paul Ward would consolidate his interest in one of Ireland’s largest cinema groups by buying out his sisters’ shareholdings for €31.5 million. The mediated deal, midwifed by legal and financial experts, was a win-win scenario intended to put to bed a series of internecine disputes in the family-owned and argued-over business.  The problem was it didn’t quite work that way. Instead, it opened up another can of worms that would bring them all to court. In late 2019, Ward’s sisters, Jean Kennedy and the late Carol…

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