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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 »

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 »

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 »

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HEAVY GOING FOR HARRINGTON

December 16, 2021

THE LIST of Revenue defaulters published on December 7 included the usual mix of companies who have fallen foul of the taxman. It... 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 »

TAXMAN TAKES A BEATING

December 2, 2021

GOLDHAWK regularly features the Revenue Commissioners in these pages, mostly when some slippery type has been caught bang to rights for evasion. It... Read more »

BARNEY O’HARE BEATS THE ODDS

December 2, 2021

THE NAME of one of the few independent chains of bookies in the country, Bar One Racing (“where the customer is always No... Read more »

SALLY O’BRIEN’S LAST PINT

December 2, 2021

THE NAME of Sally O’Brien will be familiar to readers of a certain age, especially Harp drinkers, given the way she might look... Read more »

CHRIS WHOLEY’S SIN BIN

December 2, 2021

WHILE FORMER rugby pundit with Mediahuis, Neil Francis, is still maintaining a low profile, the former international will presumably have noted a missed... Read more »

EAMONN ROTHWELL’S RICHES

December 2, 2021

ONE OF the wealthiest chief executives in this country has to be Eamonn Rothwell, the boss of Irish Continental Group (ICG), which is... Read more »

LA CAVE’S ‘GNAW MARKS’

November 18, 2021

THE LONG-established French bistro style restaurant La Cave, off Dublin’s Grafton Street, has a loyal troop of followers and has become something of... Read more »

NIALL FORTUNE’S ‘DEMISE’

November 18, 2021

NIALL FORTUNE channelled his inner Mark Twain last week, chortling that “reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated”. He was referring to... Read more »

ADAM MOONEY’S FADING TAN

November 18, 2021

AS PEOPLE are familiar with by now, pandemics don’t treat everyone equally and some business sectors have felt more pain than others. It... Read more »

ANNUAL 2021: BRIEF CASES – HIGHS AND LOWS IN 2021

November 18, 2021

MORE THAN a year and a half of Covid-19 restrictions haven’t triggered the forecast tsunami of commercial collapses and liquidations, but that doesn’t... Read more »

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DER KAISER AND MR & MRS SMITH

November 4, 2021

GOLDHAWK WAS impressed by the old-fashioned shoe leather reporting demonstrated by veteran Sindo reporter Liam Collins last week. Collins made his way down... Read more »

IAN REDMOND’S DANCE MOVES

November 4, 2021

ALMOST UBIQUITOUS in the recent media frenzy over the reopening of nightclubs and the government-imposed restrictions was Ian Redmond of the popular Dublin... Read more »

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NOEL MORAN’S EXPENSIVE STUD

November 4, 2021

NOEL AND Valerie Moran have had a turbulent 2021, with plenty of media (and Central Bank) attention focused on the trials and tribulations... Read more »

JACK RONAN TIDIES UP

November 4, 2021

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a couple of familiar names filing ‘ceased trading’ notifications – Vita Cortex Holdings Ltd and Vita Five Five Ltd. These were... 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 »

TANYA AIREY’S TRAVEL DISRUPTION

October 7, 2021

GOLDHAWK’S EYES were watering reading the news reports of travel agent Tanya Airey’s difficult 2020, with her revenues plummeting €23m thanks to the... Read more »

ENDA O’COINEEN’S STRATEGY

October 7, 2021

ENDA O’COINEEN has been busy splashing the cash in an effort to build the Business Post Group into a formidable media Goliath, recently... Read more »

THE FEIGHERYS FIND A PATH

October 7, 2021

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order to the Feighery family, who have inked a deal to sell their company SIAC Bituminous Products (SIACBP) Ltd to... Read more »

GARVEY’S GRUMBLES

October 7, 2021

LAST MONTH, Glenveagh Homes boss Stephen Garvey thundered to the Irish Times: “If construction is such a profitable industry, why aren’t more people... Read more »

DEIRDRE FOLEY MOVES ON

September 23, 2021

SO FAREWELL then Natrium Ltd, a company that was at the centre of the highly fractious purchase, closure and eventual sale to Paddy... Read more »

CHASING THE YANKEE DOLLAR

September 23, 2021

CONGRATULATIONS to e-learning gurus Garrett Byrne and Kevin Cronin, who have just wound up their Hawkington Ltd holding company, a year after selling... Read more »

KEEPING UP WITH SIMON KELLY

September 23, 2021

MORE ON Goldhawk’s old friend Simon ‘son of Paddy’ Kelly, whose risk mitigation operation Emex Software, hit a road bump last month. It... Read more »

DAVID NASH’S EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE

September 23, 2021

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR David Nash (cousin of the soft drinks family that shares the name) has decided to wind up one of his healthcare... Read more »

JOHN SWAN’S ROTTEN FRUIT BASKET

September 9, 2021

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the long-running liquidation of Carlow-based Swan Fruit Ltd, where the principal is John Swan (see The... Read more »

GREG KAVANAGH’S WINE BILL

September 9, 2021

THE ONE and only Greg Kavanagh, Irish property developer extraordinaire, continues to encounter problems with parties who are demanding money from him. In... Read more »

SHANE FILAN’S FOLLY

September 9, 2021

A NEW filing in the Companies Office concerns the notice of cessation by a receiver of a company called Shafin Developments Ltd. This... Read more »