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ANNUAL 2024: FROM LOADED ADVERSARIES TO FLEEING RUGBY STARS

November 14, 2024

IN 2024 there was no shortage of excitement in the business world, with company collapses and expensive court outings aplenty. While some of... Read more »

SHARON KEEGAN’S ‘EMPOWERMENT BRAND’

October 31, 2024

GOLDHAWK IS sad to see that the leisurewear company set up by his favourite “inspirational leader”, Sharon Keegan, is being wound up next... Read more »

DEIRDRE VELDON’S SMOOTH RIDE

October 31, 2024

READERS OF The Currency online business publication were treated to yet another gushing interview with a publishing figurehead at an acquisitive media group... Read more »

KEITH MCDONNELL’S BIKE CRASH

October 31, 2024

IT WAS something of a surprise to see a creditors’ meeting called for next week for an outfit called The Lazy Bike Tour... Read more »

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DUNNES STORES STATS

October 31, 2024

THERE WAS much interest in the Sindo’s exclusive last weekend on the contents of the will of Frank Dunne, brother of Margaret Heffernan... Read more »

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BAD ATTITUDE

October 31, 2024

THE DREADED taxman has tracked down a company that was set up in Cork to develop and distribute pet GPS systems. Back in... Read more »

MULCAHY’S FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES

October 17, 2024

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with Cork businessman extraordinaire Michael Mulcahy, who has quite the talent for organising awards ceremonies and hanging... Read more »

THAMMY NGUYEN’S WORKOUT

October 17, 2024

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED last week that a company with the innocuous name of CFBD Ltd has gone into liquidation on foot of its liabilities.... Read more »

KEVIN DUNDON’S NEW RECIPE

October 17, 2024

SO-CALLED ‘celebrity chef’ Kevin Dundon was rather modest during one of his (very) frequent media appearances recently, telling the Irish Examiner that his... Read more »

DAWSON STREET DETOUR

October 17, 2024

A COMPANY that had planned to completely redevelop the high-profile Dawson Hotel on Dublin’s Dawson Street is now going into liquidation. In 2022,... Read more »

CORMAC LOHAN’S VAT BILLS

October 3, 2024

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Athlone legal eagle Cormac Lohan, has suffered yet another setback, this time in the Court of Appeal courtesy of a... Read more »

FRANK CARROLL’S FURNITURE

October 3, 2024

THE APPOINTMENT last month of Joe Walsh of JW Accountants as interim examiner at swanky furniture manufacturer Alfrank Designs follows AIB’s taking over... Read more »

BUDGET PLOT

October 3, 2024

THE LOBBYING by film and TV interest groups in the run-up to this week’s budget has been escalating since June, when Susan Kirby’s... Read more »

WAREHOUSING AT THE ‘BIZ POST’

October 3, 2024

AS BEFITS the parish newsletter of the SME community in Ireland, the Business Post has been blasting out articles for much of this... Read more »

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STEPHEN DONNELLY’S SAVINGS

October 3, 2024

IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/7/24) that Goldhawk was curious about a restaurant company called Castleknock Hospitality Ltd (CHL) that had... Read more »

JOHN MCGUIRK V THE BROGANS

September 19, 2024

THE HEATED reaction to the housing of ‘unvetted military-aged men’ has reached fever pitch in recent months, spearheaded by a few key personalities... Read more »

NORAH ORBITING ONCE MORE

September 19, 2024

ONE OF the ventures of Norah Casey is about to enter a new dimension as she gears up for the launch of Planet... Read more »

GAY FUTURE COUP

September 19, 2024

FOXROCK-BASED moneybags Ger O’Leary had plenty to celebrate last month after the part-time racehorse trainer saddled Doyen For A Drink to land Cartmel’s... Read more »

MARK QUICK’S MANY HATS

September 19, 2024

IT’S BEEN a challenging few years for entrepreneur Mark Quick, who has dipped his fingers in a great many pies but pulled up... Read more »

EDDIE HOBBS’S SOUR TREAT

September 5, 2024

THE OFFICIAL end is nigh for one of the various businesses that financial adviser Eddie ‘Rip Off Republic’ Hobbs has backed over the... Read more »

MICHAEL MULCAHY’S MANY HATS

September 5, 2024

GOLDHAWK’S POST-Sunday-lunch indigestion was exacerbated by the work involved in deciphering the Sindo’s exciting tale of regrets, recriminations, homophobia and padel tennis last... Read more »

LEGAL EAGLES FLY THE NEST

September 5, 2024

LAST WEEKEND the Business Post property editor Tina-Marie O’Neill waxed lyrical about the impressive Argyle at Ballybride Manor in the Dublin mountains, which... Read more »

NELL MCCAFFERTY’S SHARE TIPS

September 5, 2024

THERE WERE, unsurprisingly, many heartfelt tributes last month to the irrepressible Nell McCafferty, with contributors highlighting her significant impact on Irish society and... Read more »

BILL MCCABE’S IMPLANTS

August 22, 2024

A FEW months after the liquidation of the heavily indebted breast implant manufacturer Global Consolidated Aesthetics Ltd (which was backed by the likes... Read more »

9TH IMPACT’S TAX GAME

August 22, 2024

DIGITAL GAMING is big business and an Irish company that has been at the forefront in recent years is 9th Impact, which was... Read more »

KITE MEDICAL’S TURBULENCE

August 22, 2024

A YEAR and a half after collapsing into liquidation, the final wind up meeting has been held for Kite Medical Ltd (KML). While... Read more »

WORKCOMPASS LOSES ITS WAY

August 22, 2024

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk looks at the adventures of Dundrum-based businessman, landlord and philanthropist Aidan Corless, who is now in... Read more »

DAVID KENNEDY’S SURPRISE MOVE

August 8, 2024

A COMPANY that was behind an established massage clinic operating out of a premises in D2 is set to be wound up on... Read more »

BRIAN DURKAN’S INTEREST CHARGES

August 8, 2024

A COMPANY called Cedarvale Commercial Ltd has been wound up boasting some pretty hefty losses, with most of the red ink down to... Read more »

DAN FLINTER’S STALLION PROBLEM

August 8, 2024

IN HIS first review as chairman of the Irish National Stud (INS), former Irish Times chairman Dan Flinter tried his best to put... Read more »

BEIT FOUNDATION’S LEGAL BILLS

August 8, 2024

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk looks at the increasingly fraught financial picture at the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF), which oversees the... Read more »

JOHN SWAN’S FRUIT AND VEG ORDER

August 8, 2024

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar (see The Phoenix 22/2/19) with the gruelling liquidation of Carlow-based Swan Fruit Ltd (SFL), where the principal,... Read more »

SECURITY CONCERNS

July 25, 2024

FOLLOWING THE move by the dreaded taxman to wind up GZ Professional Security Ltd (GZPS), Aiden Murphy of Crowe is now in situ... Read more »

SHARON BYRNE’S BIG BET

July 25, 2024

THE LATEST accounts for the Irish Bookmakers’ Association (IBA) – the gambling lobby entity chaired by Sharon Byrne – provide an update on... Read more »

AKO AMIRI’S HAIR CUT

July 25, 2024

A LITTLE over a year on from the collapse of the Just For Men Ltd (JFM) barbers and male grooming chain in Cork,... Read more »

MUM’S THE WORD

July 25, 2024

ACCOUNTS WERE filed last week for Associated Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd, the company behind the Oirish Daily Mail and assorted publications it has snapped... Read more »