Full coverage: Alternative lending

While the Limerick businessman is in Cheltenham watching his horses run, the UK- and Dublin-based lending arm of his family office is funding more and more property deals all over Ireland.

Homely is the new venture of Andrew Lynch, the former COO of Huckletree. It's a bridge between renting and owning a home for frustrated renters trying to buy their own place.

Nick Corcoran grew up in Dublin’s inner city and his first job was selling vegetables from a van in Ballymun. Today, along with his business partner Nigel McDermott, he runs Cardinal Capital, a pioneer in the Irish alternative financing sector.

Having been sucked into the spiral of Nama and vulture funds, Belfast property developers Gareth Graham and Adam Dickson saw the need for another form of lending. This is now their main business – all bootstrapped.

US investment giant Bain Capital has become a dominant force in Irish business over the last seven years. Based on an investigation of more than 700 company documents, this is the story of Bain Capital in Ireland – what it owns, who it has backed, and what is coming next.