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Full coverage: Tipperary

Coolmore company gets planning for housing development near Clonmel

Melclon Unlimited has secured planning approval for a 96-home development despite significant local opposition from residents in an adjoining housing estate over traffic, privacy, and other concerns.

Niall Sargent
18th Dec, 2025 - 2 min read

“Shifting sands”, “luck penny” payment, and a family “steamrolled” by litigation

The court's judgment is scathing in its dismissal of John Magnier's claim over a binding handshake deal for the 751-acre Barne Estate. As the loss settles in, what will the saga mean for Magnier and the Coolmore brand? 

Niall Sargent
17th Sep, 2025 - 10 min read

Legal costs in Barne Estate case likely to reach in excess of €6m

Costs in the highly-charged case taken by John Magnier are set to run into millions of euro following both a lengthy hearing this summer and also pre-trail hearings peppered throughout 2024.

Niall Sargent
15th Sep, 2025 - 3 min read

Maurice Regan gets green light to expand stud close to Barne Estate

The US construction magnate is currently embroiled in a battle with John Magnier over ownership of the 751-area estate in Co Tipperary which both want to support their growing bloodstock businesses.

Niall Sargent
11th Aug, 2025 - 3 min read

The Magnier map: How much land does the bloodstock dynasty really own in Tipp?

As John Magnier battles construction magnate Maurice Regan over the 751-acre Barne Estate, land registry records and planning files draw the first map of almost 11,000ac amassed in the Golden Vale by the family behind Coolmore.

Niall Sargent
10th Jul, 2025 - 7 min read

The Regan register – part 1 : How the battle for Tipperary farmland “became personal”

The Currency examines US-based construction magnate Maurice Regan’s landbank in the Premier County as he butts up against John Magnier’s Coolmore empire – along with their rivalry's perceived knock-on impact on land prices.

Niall Sargent
12th Jun, 2025 - 9 min read

Tommie Gorman: What we can all learn from “The Fairytale of Tipperary”

This cancer support project in Tipperary town is part of a network of centres doing similar work throughout the country. They are driven by heroic, unsung people like Jennifer Jones Hickey and the late Sarah Gleeson.

Tommie Gorman
10th Dec, 2023 - 3 min read

Keeper of the farmers’ cloud: “We will never sell the data”

Fabien Peyaud is the co-founder and chief executive of Herdwatch, a Co Tipperary-based agritech firm now marking ten years in business. He discusses falling in love with Ireland, learning on the job at a US multinational and betting on a cloud-based app before farmers even had smartphones.

Thomas Hubert
28th Jul, 2021 - 3 min read

A helping hand: “The objective is to assist companies that have lost business because of Covid-19“

Cheese makers in Co Tipperary hope their idea will help promote the premium products of small food producers during the coronavirus crisis.

Cait Caden
26th Mar, 2020 - 3 min read
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