“I’m going to use your money to finish the build,” Paddy McKillen Jr messaged property consultant David Agar over WhatsApp on October 11, 2022. The build in question was The Pinnacle luxury apartment scheme in Mount Merrion, south Dublin. “We will start advertising the thing for sale asap as an entire block,” the hospitality mogul wrote, before later that day relaying realtor Knight Frank’s advice that it would be better to sell the units individually. “They say that the sales value selling them individually is 39m after paying vat on the sales. We will then owe 28m to castlehaven and…

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