Ciarán Hancock

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1,838 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

Ciarán Hancock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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That's what it looks like to me now.

So in other words, TII didn't need to buy the whole five and a half acres?

I was going to say, in parallel, they've bought out the 50% interest that Irish Life held in the ILAC Centre.

So it now completely owns that and it plans to redevelop it, refurbish it.

Are we getting good value for this site or if Amerson squeezed a really good price out of it?

We should actually maybe just pause on that because 1994 the Carleton Cinema closed.

Yep.

Joe O'Reilly then purchased the site along with additional lands around it.

And then between 2008 or around 2008 he came forward with a proposal it was going to be a building plus development.

There was going to be a park in the sky.

My memory has it that there was going to be some sort of a slide or a ski slope or something daft.

There were loads of objections.

It was very Celtic Tiger.

And the crash came and it got nixed by the crash.

Joe Riley ended up in Nama.

I mean, they had plans for a John Lewis department store, but the world had changed in the meantime.

There was going to be a thousand car parking spaces and all that.

There was no demand then suddenly in 2010.

We were in Troika bailout, as you well know, or just about to head into one.

And NAMA took control of the asset, essentially took control of the loans.

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