Angry developers put tough questions to Gilmore

SOME of the country’s top developers and politicians gathered yesterday afternoon in a room normally reserved for weddings.

It was a fitting venue, given that for many years there appeared to be a very happy marriage between developers and the political elite in Ireland. But the divorce courts are beckoning and construction chiefs are annoyed.

When the developers and contractors who gathered at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork City yesterday were first invited to ask questions of the panel of speakers it took a while for them to become brave enough to put up their hands.