Kenneth Donfield has been fighting for five years to stay in the modest bedsit apartment that has been his home for over 20 years in a building now owned by a Waters company. The case will go to the High Court.
Rathdrinagh Land, a Waters property vehicle, wants the courts to enforce an order for Kenneth Donfield to leave his flat in its Dublin 2 property. He is fighting the move as a five-year row rumbles on.
Between 2019 and 2021, the waste tycoon sold out of Beauparc in a billion-euro deal. Now, he is making his next moves via a web of investment companies operating from Merrion Square.
The Currency looks at the commercial footprint in the capital city and more lavish purchases in his native Meath since the €1.2 billion sale of his waste empire in 2021.
In the first of a three-part investigation, company, planning and legal files show how the waste tycoon is reinvesting funds from the sale of Beauparc into a string of new waste and energy ventures.
Plans to redevelop Textile House beside Stephen's Green Shopping Centre have stirred up local opposition and already been delayed twice by Dublin City Council concerns over the size and scale of the new plans.
The waste and energy tycoon is growing his property portfolio in the capital as he continues to reinvest proceeds from the €1.4 billion sale of Beauparc.
The purchase of the Chancery mixed-use complex from a Credit Suisse fund adds to the waste and energy tycoon’s portfolio in the capital.
Under the name Bia Energy, the waste and energy entrepreneur is accelerating the completion of the beleaguered Dublin anaerobic digestor he acquired from Energia earlier this year.
The former owner of Beauparc Utilities is in discussions with the promoters of a direct jet fuel link between Dublin’s port and airport. Here is the background of the proposed project.
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