Exactly five years ago today, RTÉ broadcast The Great Irish Sell-Off, a television documentary I presented detailing how a small number of global financial titans and vulture funds had acquired close to €200 billion of distressed Irish debt. It was a colossal sum, and it was without parallel. Vulture funds were active on the east coast of the US and in Spain, and we travelled to both countries to document the impact the funds were having there. But the scale of investment in Ireland was on a completely different level. It was essentially the greatest transfer of property ownership in…

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