Johnny Ronan

Site first put on market for €35m in 2018 and came close to being sold to Johnny Ronan for €29m in 2020

Developer claims US firm owes him €3.3m

Seen & Heard: Ryanair to sue IA; Premier Inn expands Irish targets; Enterprise Ireland’s €1bn idea; State invests €60m in climate funds

Issue relates to planned 1.3 acre office site in Cherrywood, Dublin

DLR Properties seeking declarations, damages and injunctions and alleges defamation in Cherrywood town centre office site row

Seen and Heard: Ronan’s portfolio, Flahavan’s performance, Baldoyle landbank and Irish energy consumption

Developer claims he is owed €3.3m tied to Fibonacci Square office complex

Locals, including community council, objected to plan

Developer says he may pursue a court petition for a wind-up of the Fortress company that ultimately owns development

Case is tied to dispute with Fortress Investment Group

Tanat secured planning permission in 2019 to demolish the existing Tara House on the site to build a hotel and office block

Planners felt the proposed development would set an ‘undesirable precedent’ and devalue nearby property

Receivers Grant Thornton launch formal sale of 11 RGRE assets including Bewley’s Grafton Street premises and Connaught House

He made much of his undoubted wealth – he was reputed to be worth up to €100 million at the time of his death – from property

Project ‘will have a brutal and disproportionate impact on the local residential environment’

Prospective buyer of developer’s €2.85m Georgian pile may face obstacle to accessing city centre park

Wall Street banking giant is shedding jobs globally as part of cost-cutting initiative

Developer retains a big portfolio of properties but is locked in numerous legal disputes

Redevelopment of Citi’s current European headquarters to include public viewing gallery known as the Liffey Experience on 16th floor

Seen & Heard: Bank of Ireland motor finance redress, CIÉ site proceedings, future of Tara Mines, Dublin Airport cap poll and Porterhouse sale of brewery to Conor McGregor

Seen & heard: Johnny Ronan targets 17-storey docklands block; Trinity Biotech buys diabetes tech; Housing Agency boss warns prices must drop; and new Dublin pharma hub

Colin Coyle’s new column also tackles the rich taste of Barry’s tea, the raunchy side of Element Pictures and Trump’s distaste for Nato

A tech sector slowdown coupled with rising interest rates gave many a year to forget

After a big recovery in the years after the financial crisis, there is renewed talk of haircuts and receiverships in the sector

Reliance on expensive private equity funding created problems as value of commercial property assets fell post-Covid

Active discussions are ongoing with an international investor, but developer’s property company missed deadlines set by banks

Around the Block: One-time home of well-known publican, the late Noel Cassidy, will require costly renovation or rebuild

New height guidelines could clear way for city’s tallest building to be built near 3Arena

Seen & Heard: Euronext demands tax changes, FAI funding crisis, green light for Johnny Ronan apartment block, AIB facing discount on shopping centre loans

Matt Cooper bites off more than he can chew in this account of land transactions let down by too many omissions and errors

Any Other Business: Phelan’s Phoenix project; Coveney’s challenge; Slattery’s Vertical payout; Epicurean delight promised; Glass Bottle site confusion

Group including Cairn Homes and Johnny Ronan’s RGRE say levy would amount to €37,820 per new home in Cherrywood area

Site consortium has selected Sisk to build the first phase of the Dublin 4 development, which will include 570 homes

Developer plans 481 build-to-rent flats in south Dublin

An Bord Pleanála was entitled to permit the height increase for two apartment blocks, says Court of Appeal

Chateauneuf is 470sq m on a third of an acre with beautifully landscaped gardens and a B2 rating

Council refuses permission for science hub in proposed redevelopment

Developer sought to build 10 storey block close to Donnybrook

John Bruder is trying to bring back the concept of living over the shop, with 45 apartments built above the Frascati shopping centre in Blackrock

Exchange of contracts for €550m sale of Fibonacci Square in Ballsbridge postponed twice