Article: A big beast of Irish property pulls in his horns It was reported this week that Bernard McNamara is not going ahead with '900m Dublin housing schemes. Kim Bielenberg looks at the career of the tycoon, who prospered in the Celtic Tiger era.

A big beast of Irish property pulls in his horns

It was reported this week that Bernard McNamara is not going ahead with '900m Dublin housing schemes. Kim Bielenberg looks at the career of the tycoon, who prospered in the Celtic Tiger era

He is a failed politician who became so successful in the property game that at least one close observer of his empire remarked that he was more influential than a government minister.

Bernard McNamara, the Clare man who failed to be elected to the Dail for Fianna Fail in 1981, has left his stamp on Dublin and other corners of the country as much as any other individual.

He started his career as a real estate high flyer ...

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