Article Category: Briefcases

IAN LUCEY’S CREDITORS’ MEETING

February 10, 2022

GOLDHAWK’S favourite tech investor Ian Lucey is dealing with more major bugs at one of his companies. Having found himself coming out the... Read more »

MICHAEL KAVANAGH’S WEALTH PROBLEM

February 10, 2022

LAST MONTH, a company called Mittand collapsed into liquidation, with Gerard Murphy installed as liquidator. The name may not ring a bell with... Read more »

PHILIP MEADE’S BIG POTATOES

February 10, 2022

THE AMBITIOUS Philip Meade – Meath’s very own ‘potato king’ – has encountered resistance over plans to develop a vodka distillery on his... Read more »

COLM TÓIBÍN’S FINANCIAL PLOT TWISTS

January 27, 2022

THIS MONTH Ireland’s most prolific and prestigious living writer (© The Guardian) Colm Tóibín picked up yet another accolade when he was named... Read more »

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S TV RUN

January 27, 2022

INTERESTING to see the Sindo reporting that Box to Box Films – the producers of the hit Netflix series Drive to Survive (about... Read more »

PAUL BOWES’S HOTEL BILLS

January 27, 2022

AN OLD pal of Goldhawk’s popped up just before Christmas with a circuit court application to appoint an examiner to the company that... Read more »

FLIPDISH’S RED INK

January 27, 2022

THERE WAS plenty of hype for food delivery company Flipdish this month when it was announced that the company has raised an €85m... Read more »

NIALL HORGAN’S MONEY MACHINE

January 13, 2022

LAST YEAR proved a pretty good one for Niall Horgan and his Gym+Coffee, which is understood to have shifted significant volumes of its... Read more »

KAPIL KHANNA’S ALL-STARS

January 13, 2022

GOLDHAWK was delighted to see an enticing invite pop up in his inbox at the dreary start of 2022, when motivation can be... Read more »

JOHN COLLISON’S PROPERTY PAL

January 13, 2022

LIMERICK TECH whizkid John Collison ventured outside of his ‘circle of competence’ last week to hold forth on housing and planning in Ireland.... Read more »

DOUG TAYLOR’S GOOD PANDEMIC

January 13, 2022

HIGH-PROFILE horseracing fan Doug Taylor continues to build up his horseracing interests and recently was expanding his stallion interests with the addition of... Read more »

FIONA MCHUGH’S HICCUP

December 16, 2021

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see the taxman registering a judgment for a paltry €1,850 against former Sunday Times editor turned businesswoman Fiona McHugh.... Read more »

BARNEY O’HARE’S BOUNCE

December 16, 2021

IT LOOKS like a case of ‘full house’ for Co Louth-based bookie Barney O’Hare of Bar One Racing fame, with the bingo/entertainment venue... Read more »

QUARE COLD IN CARLOW

December 16, 2021

THE LATEST figures for Carlow’s cash-strapped VISUAL arts centre, give little reason for Christmas cheer and the cancellation of this week’s panto means... Read more »

SHAUN MURPHY’S IRISH GAME

December 16, 2021

SNOOKER ACE Shaun ‘the Magician’ Murphy has had a rocky enough year and will be looking forward to putting 2021 behind him. Meanwhile,... Read more »

RICHARD COLWELL’S SMOOTH SAILING

October 21, 2021

ALTHOUGH HE only recently inked a multimillion-euro deal to offload his polling and market research company Red C, to Enda O’Coineen’s Business Post... Read more »

OLIVER CALLAN’S BIG MOVE

October 21, 2021

PITY POOR Oliver Callan, the Monaghan funnyman, who told professional celeb-wrangler Niamh Horan how embarrassed he had been about his perilous financial position.... Read more »

JOHN O’MEARA’S PRESCRIPTION

October 21, 2021

THIS IS turning into an annus horribilis for the hapless pharmacy group owner John O’Meara. He is currently the subject of a fitness... Read more »

PAURIC CALDWELL’S GIBRALTAR CONNECTIONS

October 21, 2021

ONE OF the most expensive houses to come on the market is recent times is the splendid Nerano House in Dalkey, which carries... Read more »