I met an old builder friend recently for coffee and we shared a philosophical musing about why he felt, that above bankers, politicians, regulators and anyone else that was drunk at the wheel in the good times, the country’s largest developers were hit with the full force of hate by the Irish public when the recession hit. He told me stories of friends who lost everything and, in some cases, had tragic ends as they couldn’t cope with not only the scale of their losses but also the torrent of vilification levelled at them. He asked me why, in my…

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