“​​​​Unlike other developers, who leave human debris and dismay in their explosive wake, the Cosgraves scatter pixie dust,” wrote Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan of the dynamic brothers in their post-crash 2009 book The Builders. This was at a time when developers, bankers, and politicians typically ranked two notches below satanists in the popularity stakes.  But not Michael, Peter, and Joe Cosgrave. The consensus was that they were gentlemen, absolute gentlemen.  From a small housing development in Bluebell in 1979, the brothers, then tradesmen in their early twenties, turned the Cosgrave Group into an empire, building quality houses and apartments…

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