The court heard that the difficult phone call spurred John Magnier to drive immediately to the Barne Estate to push for an exclusivity agreement to block out other bids.
Amid claims and counterclaims, now $12 billion-valued Deel alleges its rival Rippling ran a campaign against it using its “Competitive Intelligence Department”. Rippling rejects these claims and says it has the "highest ethical standards."
Counsel for sellers the Thomson Moores claimed this morning that John Magnier's account of what happened on the night he says a deal was struck for a 750-acre estate “doesn't hold water”.
Wealthy American investor Mary Wenning is claiming in the High Court that “very large sums of money” she believed her company was investing in Ireland have gone missing. This is denied by Jeff Leo, who will now be questioned in court on the matter.
Property developer Duignan claims shareholder oppression in a firm he used with Waters to buy the Laurence Shopping Centre in Drogheda. Waters says the claim has no merit and wants the case struck out.
During his second day of cross examination, the former Sinn Féin president was grilled by BBC lawyers on IRA informers and the disappeared. He called Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing a book “written by a total opportunist”.
BBC Spotlight allegedly relied on a single anonymous source to claim the former Sinn Féin president sanctioned the death of IRA spy Denis Donaldson and should have come with a health warning, Adams's defamation trial hears.
Deel has said it wants the case to play out in Ireland but an affidavit from Rippling indicates that it is proving difficult to track down the co-defendants.
An Bord Pleanála overturned a grant of permission from Cork County Council, going against the findings of its own planner. The warehouses are vital to plans to expand its maturation storage capacity as its business grows.
Bastille Realty’s challenge is the third case filed against permission for the route in recent weeks. The cases follow challenges to four other corridors approved as part of the flagship transport project.
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