1. Paddy Kelly


Hit badly by the credit crunch, Kelly is now considering a bankruptcy scheme of arrangement. Kelly has been here before: he had to sell Clancoole, the first house he owned on the street in 1990 after he and his wife Maureen lost heavily as Names with Lloyds of London. He had bought the house for £460,000 and sold it to Tony Mullins of Barlo for £700,000. However, he kept the side garden for himself and built a house on it that is regarded as one of the best on the street.


2. Sean Dunne


Dunne and his wife Gayle live in a modern house that was built on a 0.2 acre site which was bought for €3.8m from Niall O'Farrell.


3. Derek Quinlan


The property syndicator has lived on the road for many years and advised some of his clients to purchase additional properties there. He took his own advice, purchasing Numbers 1 and 3 in 2007 for a reported €27m with the intention of building a large new house on the combined site.


4. Niall O'Farrell


His house is built on part of a 0.4-acre site acquired in 1998 from the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland for a then record price of €4.6m, for which he outbid Paddy Kelly and more than doubled the guide price. He offloaded half of the site to Seán Dunne and the duo then became involved in a legal wrangle over the boundaries. O'Farrell has since bought other property on the street.


5. The O'Malleys


Galway developers the O'Malleys were given planning permission earlier this year to develop seven homes on the site of the former Chester Beatty Library on the road. Earlier attempts to build apartments on the site had met with repeated opposition from neighbours, Stephen MacKenzie and Seán Dunne in particular. The O'Malleys paid more than €9m for the one-acre site in 1999.


6. Carl McCann


McCann set up Fyffes offshoot Blackrock International Land in 2006. Earlier this year it reported a pre-tax loss of €78.8m for the financial year as property markets crashed. In the last 12 months its market cap has fallen 60%.


7. Stephen MacKenzie


Solicitor MacKenzie owns property in affluent areas of London and is also planning to develop a scheme in Dun Laoghaire.


8. Larry O'Mahony


O'Mahony is a business partner of Tom McFeely, the former IRA hunger striker, and they have developed property schemes together. A keen polo player, together with McFeely and Liam Carroll he is involved in a High Court dispute with Noel Smyth relating to The Square in Tallaght.


9. Paul Coulson


Businessman Coulson heads Ardagh, which sold the Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend for more than €412m to Bernard McNamara, Derek Quinlan and the DDDA, an Irish record for a single site. He is an investor in Balcuik which owns the Atrium buildings in Sandyford. Coulson's house at Shrewsbury Road was put up for sale for €27.5m last year.


10. Dermot Gleeson


Gleeson has invested in various properties including the Four Seasons hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. He is a former attorney general and stepped down as chairman of AIB earlier this year.