There is always a tipping point where anger leads to action. In recent days, that tipping point was the purchase of almost an entire housing estate in Co Kildare by Round Hill Capital, a deep-pocketed global real estate investor. The acquisition is not an outlier. It follows a prescribed path that policymakers have encouraged and cultivated for the past eight years, and one that has been exploited by some of the world’s biggest institutional investors and hedge funds. Far from being an aberration, the Mullen Park buy-out is essentially government policy. Over the past eight years, Ireland both solicited and…

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