Two days ago, Nicholas O’Dwyer and John Boland made the short journey from their offices on City Quay in Dublin 2 to the Beckett Building, a 190,000-square-foot office building across the River Liffey on Dublin’s East Wall. O’Dwyer and Boland, two restructuring specialists with the accountancy firm Grant Thornton, had been appointed as joint receivers over the property just days before, and they were now conducting a walkthrough to inspect the building and to determine what to do next. The tenant is Facebook Ireland (now Meta Platforms Ireland), the social media giant that ranks as one of the world’s biggest…

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