Beleaguered Carroll in one final throw of the dice

JUST when Liam Carroll’s week looked like it couldn’t get any worse, media reports yesterday suggested that one of the country’s biggest property developers had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Dublin on Thursday night.

It comes after rumours about Carroll’s ill health have gathered apace over the past number of months. Certainly, a rare photograph of the publicity-shy millionaire taken outside his modest suburban home on Sycamore Road, Mount Merrion, Dublin, last week clearly portrayed a man under great stress.

Details about Carroll’s poor health emerged the day before his Zoe group was granted leave of the High Court to present a new petition next week seeking the appointment of an examiner to the troubled business empire built up over the past two decades by the reclusive businessman.