29-07-2025
- Business
- Irish Daily Mirror
Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney and family earn €10m for housing Dublin homeless
Former Monaghan boss Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney and his extended family's companies were paid a whopping €10 million for the first quarter of the year for providing homeless accommodation to Dublin City Council.
In figures first reported by the Irish Times, the Monaghan man and his family received massive payments while Dublin City Council spent some €50m on homeless accommodation and food costs between January and March of 2025.
The report claims that 14 of McEnaney and the family's companies were listed as recipients of payments.
The Irish Times reported that a number of companies tied to the McEnaney family received in excess of €1m in the first quarter of the year. Bluebros, owned by McEnaney's nephews, received €1.5m for the first quarter of 2025, while Brimwood Unlimited banked €1m during the quarter. A company owned by his son, John, and nephew, Gary, was paid over €855k for the opening three months of the year.
The McEnaney property portfolio stretches around Dublin with properties in locations such as Frederick Street, North Circular Road, and Lower Gardiner Street.
It is not the first time that McEnaney's figures have been published with his Brimwood company banking received €3.5m for the 4th quarter of last year, in addition to the €50.4m the company has received in the prior seven quarters, in a recent report about accommodating Ukrainians and International Protection applicants.
McEnaney had two spells in charge of the Monaghan footballers, between 2004 and 2010 and 2019 and 2022, as well as managing Meath and Wexford.
He also made the news after calling for GAA intercounty managers to be paid a grand a week and become GAA employees. He said that when managing his club, Corduff, and Monaghan, he never took any money and only accepted mileage expenses during his spells in charge of Meath and Wexford.
'The minimum wage is €14. Pay them 20 quid an hour. A thousand euro a week. Another employee of the county board and it brings it official. It brings it under the umbrella because this discussion needs to be had,' he said in October of last year.
'It needs to be sorted because it's getting out of control. Plus, we can have a scenario, we could have a sliding scale from Division Four to Division One but all centralised and paid from Croke Park.'
