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Dispute is settled

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A meeting yesterday between the Horse Racing Ireland chairman Denis Brosnan and both sides of the Punchestown dispute has resulted in an agreement to put differences aside in the interests of April`s festival meeting.

As a result, the upcoming extraordinary general meeting of the board of the Kildare Hunt Club has been postponed.

'There was agreement that everybody would work together in the interests of the festival and that the hatchet would be buried,' said the HRI chief executive Brian Kavangah last night. Kavanagh was part of the HRI team who met with the disputing parties in a four-and-a-half-hour meeting.