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Article: A developer not inclined to flash the trappings of wealth
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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LIAM CARROLL was one of a kind as a property developer. The
trappings of wealth: flash cars, helicopters, shares in private jets
and meals in Michelin-starred restaurants were not for him.
He just got on with it, in that dogged way of his, staying well
beneath the social radar.
A modest man with a mechanical engineering degree, Carroll relied
on a team of architectural technicians to do his design work for Zoe
Developments - on the basis that architects were "only interested in
designing penthouses for fellows with Mercs".
Once the principal engine of urban renewal in Dublin, churning
out hundreds of shoe-box apartments all over the inner city, Carroll
went on to become Ireland's most ...