A company in Johnny Ronan's real estate stable appealed Dublin City’s demand for payment on a Dublin 6 site for the second year running. It disputes the €4.5 million valuation and now owes the council a six-figure sum.
Commercial property firms are failing, restaurants are closing, streets are emptying. Billions in warehoused debt remains warehoused with the tax authority. These are some of the more obvious economic scars from the pandemic.
RGRE, the property group headed by Johnny Ronan, remains in talks with an international investor about the refinancing of loans relating to the assets.
Property developer Johnny Ronan is accused of trying to frustrate the multimillion-euro sale of lands in Cabinteely, south Dublin for commercial advantage. The High Court has been told there is a risk the preferred bidder will imminently pull out of the sale.
The French energy giant EDF made a remarked Irish entrance when it bought into the country’s largest planned wind farm a year and a half ago. The Currency can now reveal how much it paid Johnny and Conor Ronan and Richard Barrett in the deal – and how much it has yet to pay them.
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.
Ronan Group Real Estate has been locked in a two-year battle with DCC to try and uncover its thinking about development heights and densities in key parts of Dublin.
A court case due to begin on Monday will pit the wealthy Campbell family who operates Bewley’s Cafe against its landlord, developer Johnny Ronan.
He reshaped the Dublin skyline, became a billionaire and then saw Nama seize his empire. Now, Johnny Ronan is back on top. In his first major interview in decades, the developer talks family, fortune, feuds and reveals his vision of Ireland.
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