The reinvention of Treasury Holdings' Richard Barrett

In a candid interview, the Treasury Holdings co-founder talks exclusively about the Celtic Tiger years, his friend Johnny Ronan, and Ireland’s housing crisis

‘We were not,” says Richard Barrett, “the devil.” He and I are sitting in a corporate box at the Aviva Stadium following a Sunday Business Post property conference during which Barrett, founder of the fast-growing €1.2 billion Bartra Capital Group, gave insightful and incisive views on the blighted residential property market and how it might be fixed.

He has heard about a brief protest that took place outside, and I tell him about ...