Mick Clifford: New chapter in the extraordinary tale of Celtic Tiger developer Paddy Byrne

The developer is back in the news, this time in dispute with a county council over the building of modular homes on a site which has never received full planning permission

Paddy Byrne, in his third known developer incarnation, is engaged in work on a site in Brittas Bay with his current vehicle, Branach. Controversy centres on the status of the site he is developing. 

Seven years before the terrace of houses he built was burnt to the ground, Paddy Byrne’s helicopter crashed in a hotel carpark. 

The events were unrelated, but together gave a rare glimpse of a Celtic Tiger developer, who he was, what became of his work.