20/02/2023

Jennifer O’Connell: The footage is unsettling when juxtaposed with closure of Bewley’s

Johnny Ronan was known in some media organisations during the Celtic Tiger as the buccaneer. It suited him, from his sheriff of Nottingham hair, to his 640,000 Maybach, to the swagger with which he conducted some of his personal relationships on one occasion, sending a press release to the newsdesk of TV3 to announce the ending of his relationship with TV3 presenter Glenda Gilson.
Ronan has cut a quieter figure in recent years, as he rebuilt his empire and personal wealth after the crash, to the point where he now says he has seven million square feet of projects in the development pipeline. But despite the sycophantic Hes back! headline that greeted his emergence from the National Asset Management Agency in 2015 with all of his debts repaid, he wasnt really back at least not at his previous levels of Lets fly to Morocco for dinner, Rosanna ostentation.