When developer Joe O’Reilly’s Castlethorn Construction bought Killeen Castle in Dunsany, Co Meath in the late 1990s, the plan was to restore the historic ruins and build a 5 star hotel and golf resort surrounded by 200 luxury homes on the 600 acre site, like the famed K Club in Kildare.  But the economic crash of 2008 intervened. Killeen Castle and its 18 hole golf course, designed by US golfing great Jack Nicklaus, wound up in Nama. According to a report in the Financial Times in 2011, O’Reilly and his partners had invested €120 million in Killeen before the Irish…

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