The Irish Times

The death has taken place of the former property tycoon Patrick Gallagher. Mr Gallagher (54) is understood to have died in Dublin early yesterday morning. He had not been well in recent times. Mr Gallagher was the former head of the Gallagher group, a property development, pub and banking business that collapsed spectacularly in April 1982, when he was just 31. Mr Gallagher took charge of the Gallagher group in 1974, at the age of 22, after the death of his father, Matt Gallagher, who had created the business.