'Downsizing' Tipperary estate owner fails in €1.37m sale challenge

The owner of a 5,200-acre country estate who said he wanted to "downsize" by buying an abandoned manor house with 230 acres and do it up has failed in High Court application to force the completion of a €1.37m purchase deal.

Anthony Sheedy, who travels back and forth from Ireland to the US for his mining and waste-to-energy businesses, owns the 5,200-acre Slievenamon Estate, near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.