Pat Kiely is standing in a cavernous warehouse in Ballymount, a commercial suburb near the Red Cow roundabout in west Dublin. It is late March 1998, and Kiely has left his flourishing job as an advertising executive with DDFH&B to help turn this building into a commercial television station.  However, as he surveys empty building, Kiely, barely in his thirties, is having a wobble. “What the hell have I done,” he asks himself. “Can we really do this?” In the end, the answer was yes. The wobble turned to intent and, within six months, the building became the home to…

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