was dogged by allegations of misconduct. In 2006 McFeely was the subject of a major investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau, which found that McFeely owed the Irish state €8,000,000 in unpaid taxes. That same year Offaly County Council took McFeely's Coalport building company to the High Court after an 88-unit housing estate near Portarlington built by the company was left in "appalling condition". The following year, in 2007, McFeely's construction company, Coalport, was involved in eight major cases brought before the High Court. McFeely took out a €10,000,000 loan with his primary home as collateral in order to fight all the cases but soon thereafter stopped paying the mortgage. In 2009 McFeely was ordered to repay $6,200,000 in outstanding loans he owed to a bank and €580,000 that he owed to the Irish state. It was also in 2009 that 28 tenants in an apartment building in Dundalk, County Louth were told to leave as Louth County Council closed the building due to fire safety concerns. In 2011, the 300 residents of Priory Hall, a complex of 187 apartments in Dublin built by McFeely's companies, were ordered by the High Court to evacuate after an investigation found the entire development to be an immediate fire risk. It subsequently cost the Irish state "tens of millions" of Euro to remedy this. In the Spring of 2012, McFeely was placed in bankruptcy in the Republic of Ireland. Soon thereafter he was also declared bankrupt in England. McFeely's Dublin home, which had once served as the German embassy in Ireland, had at one point been worth €15,000,000 but was sold for €3,000,000 later that same year. In October 2013, a plumber working at the Dublin home of McFeely discovered €140,000 in cash hidden underneath a bath and reported this to the authorities. Once notified, the Criminal Assets Bureau raided the home and found an additional €60,000 in cash kept at the location. McFeely initially denied any knowledge of the cash and suggested that it had been planted there as part of a conspiracy. Following the incident, Taoiseach Enda Kenny derided McFeely as exhibiting the negative excesses of the Celtic Tiger era. In the early 2020s, Sinn Féin's spokesperson on housing Eoin O'Broin repeatedly criticised McFeely. O'Broin's 2021 book Defects: Living with the Legacy of the Celtic Tiger was highly critical of McFeely's role in the Priory Hall development. O'Broin continued to criticise