Ms Justice Siobhan Stack said the will of Michael (Mick) Joseph McNally, who died in June 2019, could be admitted to probate after she found the handwritten changes were invalid.

The two children opposed an application by the second wife to be joined as a defendant in the proceedings.

William Doyle left an estate worth some €940,000 largely comprising the farmlands, worth some €465,000, and several bank accounts with some €340,000.