John Reynolds walked into a meeting room at Goodbody Stockbrokers, then located in Ballsbridge. Two men — strangers to him — were waiting. What Reynolds didn’t yet know was that this meeting would change the course of his life. The men were an unlikely pair. One was Michael Stanley, a second-generation Dublin housebuilder whose family founded Shannon Homes in 1970, once among Ireland’s largest construction firms. In his 30s, Stanley had run a plastic packaging business, which he sold before moving into property development with his younger brother Kevin. Together, they launched the Coastland Partnership, operating across Dublin, Belfast, and…

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