Clare estate owner awarded €7.9m damages against O'Brien-controlled TPH

The High Court has awarded €7.9m in damages to 18th Baron Inchiquin, and head of the O'Brien clan, against a company controlled by businessman Denis O'Brien over the repudiation of an agreement to buy lands at Dromoland estate in Co Clare.

Today at the Commercial Court, the big-business division of the High Court, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan said she was satisfied to award damages to Conor Myles John O'Brien, a businessman and landowner of Thomond House, Dromoland against Trinity Property Holdings Ltd arising out of a proposal to buy some 377 acres out of the 600-acre estate.