{"id":210027,"date":"2025-12-25T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210027\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:41:08","slug":"families-at-war-10-business-bust-ups-that-started-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210027\/","title":{"rendered":"Families at war \u2013 10 business bust-ups that started at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nChristmas is a time for get-togethers, and perhaps the occasional disagreement too. But in some disputes, the stakes are far higher than whose turn it is to bring desserts\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben Dunne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e5ba6d60-a056-46e7-b622-4dbf6b0c4b4d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ben Dunne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Family feuds often follow a familiar trajectory. An ageing patriarch who spent a life-time building up a business empire bequeaths it to his wife and children. And then the trouble starts. Some of the siblings want to sell their shares, but the rest won\u2019t agree on what they\u2019re worth. Or one of the sons wants the company to go in a particular direction, but the others don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The row erupts in public for maybe just a few months, perhaps taking in a visit to the courts, and then it all gets sorted behind the scenes, although bad feeling may linger for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas is a time for get-togethers, and perhaps the occasional disagreement too. But in some disputes, the stakes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99066,93,61,60,5243],"class_list":["post-210027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dunnes-stores-ireland","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}