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Shoebox king: rise and fall of unlikely property tycoon


To some he was the shoebox king , to others an enigma wrapped up in a puzzle , but in reality his spectacular downfall in the summer of 2009 heralded the demise of the Celtic Tiger and the seven years of austerity that followed the reckless developer/banker-led economic crash.
Liam Carroll, who has died at the age of 70, went from being a billionaire builder and property developer to being massively in debt within the space of a few short weeks that August, and the billions owed by the unassuming businessman contributed to the catastrophic economic disaster that engulfed the country.
He was also an unlikely tycoon. While other developers bought stately homes and travelled to glitzy social and sporting events by helicopter, Carroll lived in a suburban home in Mount Merrion, Dublin and followed League of Ireland football. He drove a battered old red Toyota and went to evening mass in the nearby St Therese s Church on a Sunday, followed by a single pint of Smithwicks in Kie ....

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Music 101: Your Bluffer's Guide to Northern Soul


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Welcome back again to the Bluffers Guide, and this time we re picking up the pace from Soul and looking at Northern Soul, a genre that has its own amazing energy.
I think of my own Da, and how important his co-workers were in the factory, he couldn t hold a note that fella. He loved music and just like the factory and mine workers in the North of England; they loved uptempo soul music. We re talking about a specific time in the early 70s in places like Manchester s Twisted Wheel, Wigan Casino, even the torch, Tunstall in Stoke-on-Trent. ....

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