Full coverage: Colony Capital

Businessman Pat Ryan was part of the development consortium that bought the arts centre in 2003 for €4.2m. He is suing the Colony Capital fund that snapped up the consortium's Nama debts claiming it induced his former partners to break their agreements with him.

Johnny Ronan’s property group is battling Colony Capital from seizing a prime site on the north bank of the Liffey. Affidavits, text messages and legal letters reveal how the relationship between the two long standing business partners disintegrated.