Conflict of interest in greyhound stadium deal

A builder who earned €1.3m preparing the land for Limerick’s new greyhound stadium owned a stake in the firm that backed out of a gentleman’s agreement to do the work for free.

Pat Mulcair’s company Roadbridge stepped in and won the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) tender to raise the flood-prone site for its Greenpark stadium in Dec 2008.

At the time he owned 45,000 shares out of 571,000 in Limerick Racecourse Company (LRC), which sold the site to the IGB for €3.4m.