The billionaire won’t get the huge Barne Estate – though another magnate will. And the smaller farmers will still lose out

John Magnier outside the High Court. Photo: Collins

John Magnier outside the High Court. Photo: Collins

That was the ­reaction of ­Tipperary farmer John Hurley when he heard that billionaire John Magnier had lost his High Court case, seeking to compel the Thomson-Moore family to sell their 751-acre Barne Estate to him.