“They want everything to go very slowly,” barrister Michael Cush, acting for the development board of the National Children’s Hospital, told the Commercial Court in late January. “They” was Bam, the main contractor on the build. The case was in court because the parties were deadlocked over how to advance different elements of the mammoth dispute encircling delivery of the €2.24 billion project. Why would that be in Bam’s interest, asked Mr Justice Mark Sanfey. “I don’t think I should begin to answer that. My clients would have a view,” Cush replied. The judge sought, and was given, assurances that…

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