Sometimes it takes a near-existential crisis to highlight the resilience of a business – and the people charged with running it.  For Tom Walsh and his aparthotel operator Staycity, the pandemic showcased that resilience. Starting with one apartment in Temple Bar in the heart of Dublin, Walsh and his team had spent close to two decades scaling the business across 11 other European cities.  Months before Covid-19 shuttered the economy in early 2020, it had even unveiled plans to add a further 2,400 “keys” or apartments to its portfolio by the start of summer 2022, an expansion strategy that would…

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