In 2013, as the Irish economy was beginning to see tentative green shoots of recovery, Luke Comer offered to take me on a whistle-stop tour of his property interests in Berlin. Comer and his brother Brian had already spent €200 million buying up distressed Irish assets, and I had travelled to Berlin to see both the scale of their activities there – and also to get a broader sense of their Irish ambitions. This was a time when the hedge funds and private equity giants had little interest in Ireland – that would come later. Instead, Comer and Bill McMorrow…

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