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Article: Pat Doherty: the man from Buncrana.
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- World of Hibernia
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- March 22, 2001
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When Patrick J. Doherty was a young lad in Buncrana, County Donegal, he had two options as for as his future was concerned education or emigration. He chose the latter, and carved out a successful business in the hardnosed London property market. Then he looked homewards and saw the opportunities waiting to be explored. With the same determination that saw him step onto a ship to London at 18 years of age, Pat Doherty has spearheaded the development of Park West, the largest business campus in Ireland, and the crowning glory of Doherty's dominion.
Buncrana in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a small windswept town 14 miles south of Derry on the Inisowen ...