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John Magnier and Richard Thomson-Moore

Bloodstock billionaire John Magnier has lost a legal action in which he was seeking to push through the purchase for €15m of Barne Estate, a 751-acre Golden Vale tillage farm and mansion.

Mr Justice Max Barrett today dismissed Mr Magnier’s claim that oral agreements for the sale were finalised over a handshake at his kitchen table.