{"id":307003,"date":"2026-02-19T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307003\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:48:07","slug":"companies-owned-by-banty-mcenaney-and-his-wider-family-were-paid-e35-6m-for-homeless-accommodation-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307003\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies owned by \u2018Banty\u2019 McEnaney and his wider family were paid \u20ac35.6m for homeless accommodation \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Companies owned by former Monaghan GAA manager S\u00e9amus \u2018Banty\u2019 McEnaney<\/a> and the wider McEnaney family were paid \u20ac35.6 million by Dublin City Council<\/a> last year for providing emergency accommodation to homeless<\/a> people.<\/p>\n

New figures published by the council show that a total of \u20ac225.9 million was paid to private firms providing emergency accommodation and homeless food provision in 2025.<\/p>\n

Quarterly purchase orders for amounts paid in excess of \u20ac20,000 show that a network of 15 companies owned by McEnaney and members of his wider family received \u20ac10.66 million for the final quarter of 2025 out of a total of \u20ac60.59 million paid to private companies.<\/p>\n

That was the highest total paid in any three-month period last year.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Dublin City Council spends \u20ac58m on homeless accommodation in three-month periodOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Mr McEnaney\u2019s Brimwood UC received \u20ac1 million for the final three months of the year, according to detail in the purchase orders for emergency accommodation.<\/p>\n

Brimwood UC was paid \u20ac24 million through State contracts for accommodating Ukrainians and international protection applicants in 2024. The figures for those services for 2025 are not yet available.<\/p>\n

Another firm controlled by the wider McEnaney family, Olenna UC, received \u20ac2.7 million for providing emergency accommodation services in the final three months of 2025 from the city council.<\/p>\n

Two other businesses run by members of the wider McEnaney family received in excess of \u20ac1 million for those three months. Bluebros Hospitality Ltd received \u20ac1.34 million, while Andarna Ltd \u2013 incorporated only last June \u2013 received \u20ac1.1 million.<\/p>\n

Bluebros Hospitality Ltd recorded profits after tax of \u20ac2 million in 2024.<\/p>\n

The quarterly figures from Dublin City Council also show that three companies owned by Kevin Farrell of Leixlip, Co Kildare, and Thomas McNicholas of Swinford, Co Mayo, were paid \u20ac4.73 million for the final quarter of 2025 in addition to the \u20ac5.46 million for the previous three-month period.<\/p>\n

The companies \u2013 Forbairt \u00d3rga Tearanta, K&T Forbairt Developments Ltd and K&T Forbairt Properties Ltd \u2013 all have their registered address at the Sheldon Park Hotel on Kylemore Road, Dublin 12.<\/p>\n

Country Manor Hotels ULC, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, was paid \u20ac3.07 million during the period. Its directors are listed as Thomas Gerard Duignan (49) and Thomas Duignan (19), of Navan, Co Meath.<\/p>\n

Loux Ltd, of Finnstown Castle Hotel, Lucan, Co Dublin was paid \u20ac2.94 million for the final quarter in addition to the \u20ac2.85 million received for the previous three months. The company\u2019s accumulated profits had increased by \u20ac1.27 million to \u20ac2.17 million at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n

In its 2026 budget, Dublin City Council has set aside \u20ac406 million for all homeless services this year.<\/p>\n

The most recent Government figures show that 71 per cent of adults in homeless accommodation nationally were in the Dublin<\/a> region, with more than 8,184 adults recorded as homeless in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies owned by former Monaghan GAA manager S\u00e9amus \u2018Banty\u2019 McEnaney and the wider McEnaney family were paid \u20ac35.6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,615,13288,3663,61,60,98821],"class_list":["post-307003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-city-council","tag-homeless-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-seamus-mcenaney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}