Article Category: Brief Cases

CHOPHOUSE CHOPPED

May 15, 2025

EIGHT MONTHS after Kevin and Jillian Arundel (née Mulcahy) pulled down the shutters on their high-profile gastropub in Ballsbridge, The Chophouse, they have... Read more »

BRIAN MOONEY’S GOLF SWING

May 15, 2025

THIS MONTH is the deadline for creditors to submit any claims concerning an interesting company called Golphysics Ltd, which was set up by... Read more »

BRONAGH CONLON’S HANGOVER

May 15, 2025

THE DREADED taxman has registered a judgment in the High Court for €124,000 against Bronagh Conlon’s Listoke Distillery operation in Co Louth, which... Read more »

BERNIE’S BAD NEWS

May 15, 2025

SINCE GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 9/1/25) that a number of companies established by boom-time builder Bernard McNamara were to be wound up,... Read more »

DES MCGAHAN’S DES RES

May 1, 2025

A YEAR on from Goldhawk’s last look at the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale – where one Michael Jackson previously enjoyed a sojourn... Read more »

ALKEN BROTHERS‘ WHINE LIST

May 1, 2025

THE HAPLESS wine-importing Alken brothers, Anthony and Greg, found one of their companies on the wrong end of a winding-up petition from the... Read more »

FASHION VICTIMS

May 1, 2025

LOUTH BROTHERS John and Michael McKeown have come to the end of the road with their trendy men’s fashion business after their big... Read more »

CIARA DONLON’S EXIT

May 1, 2025

THEYA LINGERIE, which produced post-surgery underwear from bamboo no less, has now been dissolved but the name lives on in the form of... Read more »

BUTLERS CHOCOLATES PR TREAT

April 17, 2025

CONGRATULATIONS TO Butlers Chocolates, which got a valuable plug in the Indo last week in the run-up to Easter. Goldhawk is happy to... Read more »

CHARITY’S €1M BLIND SPOT

April 17, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5), Goldhawk looks at the decision of the Charities Regulator to send inspectors into two charities operating in... Read more »

GOOD ‘ADVISE’

April 17, 2025

THE FOUNDERS of high-tech analytics company Advise, Kevin McCarthy and John Phelan, had plenty to celebrate just before last Christmas when they attracted... Read more »

NOT SO SUPERMARKET

April 17, 2025

SOME ACTIVITY was spotted at Escadia Ltd and Belraine Ltd – the companies associated with a large SuperValu supermarket in Ardee, Co Louth... Read more »

CAROLINE O’MAHONY’S MOOLAH

April 3, 2025

ALTHOUGH FAB fitness influencer Caroline O’Mahony was no doubt unhappy at being outed by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) for failing... Read more »

ANNE-MARIE O’BRIEN’S FORM

April 3, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk examines the runners and riders in the recent annual general meeting of the Irish Racehorse Trainers... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S NEW PRODUCTION

April 3, 2025

THE NEW owner of James Morris’s Windmill Lane Pictures (WLP) is Business and Finance Group boss Ian Hyland and Goldhawk hopes to see... Read more »

JENNIFER ZAMPARELLI’S BIG BUCKS

March 20, 2025

IT HAS been hard to avoid the glamorous mush of Jennifer Zamparelli over the past week as the media went Dancing With The... Read more »

TONY BLOOM’S FORM

March 20, 2025

A LOT of people will have taken note of the remarkable 100/1 win last week by Poniros in Cheltenham’s JCB Triumph Hurdle, which... Read more »

LIGHTS, CAMERA, NO ACTION

March 20, 2025

TROUBLING NEWS from across the water for the many promoters of new Irish film studios – or ‘media campuses’ as they are now... Read more »

SWAN FRUIT CONTINUES TO ROT

March 20, 2025

FANS OF The Phoenix will not have been surprised by the Sindo’s article last weekend headlined, “Fraud Squad probes fruit and veg firm... Read more »

JENNI TIMONY’S SALES PITCH

March 6, 2025

GOLDHAWK spotted an old friend popping up in Letterkenny at a Mum Talks event (for women looking “to feel inspired”) at the Castle... Read more »

MICK SMURFIT’S FAMILY TIES

March 6, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18), Goldhawk looks at the latest adventure by Sharon Smurfit, daughter of moneybags Monaco resident Mick. She has... Read more »

REVENUE’S SURGICAL STRIKE

March 6, 2025

THE TAXMAN has secured the winding up of a company called Vesalius (EU) Ltd, which turns out to have links to one Stephen... Read more »

CARTON HOUSE HANDICAP

March 6, 2025

CARTON HOUSE golf club in Co Kildare has been busy in recent months as host of the KPMG Women’s Open, where the organising... Read more »

WEE CARE’S WEDGE

February 20, 2025

FIGURES JUST filed for the Belfast-controlled Wee Care nursery business, which has significant operations in south Co Dublin, show that founder Ian Buchanan... Read more »

HAMISH KHAYAT’S OLD NUMBERS

February 20, 2025

ONE HAMISH Khayat must have been flashing his pearly whites from ear to ear after last weekend’s gushing article in the Business Post.... Read more »

DERMOT PURCELL’S GOOD GOING

February 20, 2025

FANS OF the sport of kings will have noted that well-liked racehorse trainer Harry Rogers has been back in the High Court with... Read more »

FRANCIS HANRAHAN’S FOOTWORK

February 20, 2025

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment for €42,000 against a company called Unit 3 Ltd, which is owned by Mount Merrion-based... Read more »

JAMIE’S MYERSCOUGH SHAKE-UP

February 6, 2025

IT HAS been hard to avoid former Take That member Robbie Williams in recent weeks, as the hype machine has cranked up the... Read more »

SHANE CORRY’S TAX BILL

February 6, 2025

INTERESTING TO report a chunky €427,000 tax judgment registered against one Shane Corry, with an address on Foxfield Road in Raheny, D5. It... Read more »

ÁINE MORIARTY’S IFTA PLOT

February 6, 2025

ÁINE MORIARTY’S annual publicly-funded IFTA gong show for the nation’s film and TV industry luvvies takes place fittingly on Valentine’s Day. The big... Read more »

HIBERGENE’S MEDICAL REPORT

February 6, 2025

THE LIQUIDATOR of the controversial HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd (HDL) has filed returns in the Companies Registration Office revealing the scale of the debts... Read more »

VISUAL’S QUARE OLD LOSSES

January 23, 2025

HAVING JUST celebrated 15 years in operation, the well-funded Visual arts centre in Carlow – the largest visual arts space in the country... Read more »