Property developers like the British landlords of old: Barrington

[He3]

Kathleen Barrington lets rip in the Sunday Business Post.

It is sometimes hard to reconcile those béal bocht interviews with the fact that Kelly, Dunne and Quinlan were among the country’s highest rollers living multimillionaire lifestyles based on the fortunes they extracted from developments sold or let at exorbitant prices to consumers and businesses, many of whom are now struggling to meet their hefty mortgage and rental obligations, some of whom have been forced out of business as a result.

It is ironic that, having wrapped themselves in the tricolour, some of our developers appear to have wanted little more than the trappings of a British establishment they purported to despise.

Dunne, who is often known as the Squire, apparently thought it was the epitome of class to bring London’s Knightsbridge to Dublin’s Ballsbridge, as though we should be grateful to him for helping us emulate our betters.

The reality, of course, is that the Paddy Kellys of this world represented a landlord class not as far removed from the landlords of old as they would have you believe, a class that, like its predecessor, was close to the financial and political establishment.

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[Digout]

I've been shot down a few times for saying we removed the brits and replaced them with our own landlord class (FF). Glad to see some agree with me.

[Gabha Óir]

Seán Ó Faoláin expressed the exact same sentiments in the Rocky Road to Dublin documentary in 1967. He was right then and it's true for today.

[mmrebel]

and just like the old landlord class of old there is no social justice take the mentioned property developer paddy kelly who according to the Sunday times owes 700m to Anglo Irish and has no way of paying the money back.
Now will Mr Kelly go to jail for his unpaid debts ?? i don't think so .
Now take this a Monaghan woman is facing a jail term for the non-payment of a credit union loan. The single mother-of-two is trying to halt a district court ruling which sentenced her to one month in prison for failure to repay a credit union debt of €5,800.

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[X-ray]

I am fairly strong on the national question, but in fairness the brits were never as bad as this lot...

bring back the peep o day boys

[He3]

Clogs to clogs in three generations.

[jdckelly]

bit harsh on the british landlords, don't think they were ever as bad as property developers

[He3]

some were worse

[Factorem]

The fact that Parnell Square exists in 2009 (all "pre 63" properties I might add) is testimount to our property laws.

1963 was 46 years ago.

Slum lords should be told to clean up their act or get out of the business.

[toxic avenger]

Have been saying it for years, we are supposed to doff our caps at certain property developers (not all, some, shock horror, are decent people), along with other haircuts about town, as if they had done something akin to finding a cure for cancer. James Connolly warned against it, but it seems to no avail...