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KAM TIM NG’S HELICOPTER

June 17, 2021

THERE WAS a setback to high-flying Kam Tim Ng last month when he failed to have a legal action against him dismissed. The... Read more »

LUCINDA KELLY’S POP-UPS

June 3, 2021

WHAT POPS up must fall down, it appears. Popertee Ltd, the business set up by Lucinda Kelly six years ago, before attracting significant... Read more »

VISUAL’S POOR PICTURE

June 3, 2021

THINGS AREN’T looking any better at the VISUAL arts centre in Carlow, where the colour red still dominates the accounts. The good news... Read more »

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LUNDIN’S €50M

June 3, 2021

A BLAST from the past with the winding-up of a company called Lundin Mining Ltd. The Lukas Lundin-chaired Canadian mining giant has operations... Read more »

KING OF THE CASTLE

June 3, 2021

THERE WAS good news for former Wall Street banker Stephen Evans-Freke recently, when a proposed property development near his Co Cork castle got... Read more »

BIROL NADIR’S PATIENT BACKERS

June 3, 2021

STILL NO sign of Birol Nadir’s long-awaited platform “on which real fans can interact with real stars and engage with others who share... Read more »

IAN SKEFFINGTON’S BIG PLANS

May 20, 2021

A PLANNING application has been lodged by a company called Flodale Ltd for the retention of accommodation at the Hibernian hotel in Abbeyleix,... Read more »

UCD COMPANY FAILS TEST

May 20, 2021

IT’S THE end of the road for Q-Validus Ltd, a UCD-backed company that emerged on the back of what was called the European... Read more »

NINA GILLETT’S KEY TO SUCCESS

May 20, 2021

DOCUMENTS FILED in the Companies Office by Nindav Ltd show a loss for its first six months to the end of 2019 of... Read more »

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A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE

May 20, 2021

THE ACCOUNTS just filed for Principle Management (the firm that was incorporated after Live Nation acquired Paul McGuinness’s company of the same name... Read more »

MORE TUSKAR CREDITORS

May 20, 2021

DOCUMENTS JUST filed by the liquidator of Tuskar Property Holdings Ltd (TPH), Myles Kirby, reveal that unsecured creditors were owed a hefty €3.5m... Read more »

IAN SKEFFINGTON’S BIG PLANS

May 20, 2021

A PLANNING application has been lodged by a company called Flodale Ltd for the retention of accommodation at the Hibernian hotel in Abbeyleix,... Read more »

UCD COMPANY FAILS TEST

May 20, 2021

IT’S THE end of the road for Q-Validus Ltd, a UCD-backed company that emerged on the back of what was called the European... Read more »

NINA GILLETT’S KEY TO SUCCESS

May 20, 2021

DOCUMENTS FILED in the Companies Office by Nindav Ltd show a loss for its first six months to the end of 2019 of... Read more »

A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE

May 20, 2021

THE ACCOUNTS just filed for Principle Management (the firm that was incorporated after Live Nation acquired Paul McGuinness’s company of the same name... Read more »

MORE TUSKAR CREDITORS

May 20, 2021

DOCUMENTS JUST filed by the liquidator of Tuskar Property Holdings Ltd (TPH), Myles Kirby, reveal that unsecured creditors were owed a hefty €3.5m... Read more »

GRAHAM SPURLING’S SCREENPLAY

May 6, 2021

WITH CINEMAS having been rightly banjaxed by Covid-19, it is not surprising that there have been closures but Graham Spurling and his family... Read more »

FINBARR CORKERY’S BAD BETS

May 6, 2021

GOLDHAWK SEES that one of the casino companies associated with his old pal, Cork-based Finbarr Corkery Jr, has been wound up. This should... Read more »

POLLDADDY RETIRES

May 6, 2021

SO IT’S farewell then to Polldaddy Ltd, which is being officially dissolved, 13 years after it was bought over by the Yanks, who,... Read more »

JOHN WYSE’S HOUSE

May 6, 2021

AN IMPRESSIVE pile on Rathgar’s Bushy Park Road has just gone on the market with a price tag of €2.1m. This is the... Read more »

STUDIOS’ LATEST BLOCKBUSTER

May 6, 2021

THERE’S NOTHING the film and TV business likes more than a good story. And so we have The Film/TV Industry & Ireland’s Economy,... Read more »

PAUL HOURICAN’S RENT ROLL

April 22, 2021

LAST YEAR a little noticed legal row over the sale of a €3m pile on Wellington Road D4 was quietly settled. The plaintiff... Read more »

THE HOLDENS’ GYM WORKOUT

April 22, 2021

AMONG THE businesses banjaxed by Covid-19 are gyms, and one high-profile player here, Ben Dunne, has been in retrenchment mode. Oddly, a company... Read more »

ÉNERGIE SAPPING

April 22, 2021

THE GYM business continues to find it difficult during the pandemic and a number of unhealthy looking outfits haven’t been able to get... Read more »

NATALE FERRARA’S IRISH OUTFIT

April 22, 2021

WITH BITCOIN and other cryptocurrencies attracting a significant boost in value in recent weeks, it is interesting to look at an operation incorporated... Read more »

SÉAMUS WALSH’S STAND-OFFS

April 8, 2021

MELBOURNE-BASED Irish moneybags Séamus Walsh has been rutting up against Waterford County Council over his latest property venture – beside the beach in... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S LATEST LIQUIDATIONS

April 8, 2021

THE BAD news keeps coming for solicitor-turned-property-developer Noel Smyth, with another raft of his businesses being the subject of creditors’ meetings next week.... Read more »

NOEL KELLY’S INVESTMENTS

April 8, 2021
ANOTHER JUDGMENT has just been registered against the Pulse F6 telematics business where a significant backer turns out to be the private investment company... Read more »

GERRY MURPHY’S BAD TIMING

April 8, 2021

A COMPANY called Brightroom Media is being wound up next week after things turned dark. Behind this fledgling online business was experienced exhibition... Read more »

LEX GREENSILL’S IRISH CUSTOMERS

March 25, 2021

THESE ARE nervous times for businesses that have links to the giant UK-based Greensill Capital firm that collapsed into administration earlier this month.... Read more »

JOHN O’SULLIVAN’S CRASH LANDING

March 25, 2021

A COMPANY that provided car-parking facilities at Dublin airport has just gone into liquidation. Parkfly Ltd, where the principal is John O’Sullivan, has... Read more »

FAILED BID

March 25, 2021

WHILE THERE has been plenty of grumbling about Dún Laoghaire by local business types in recent years, it seems the best efforts of... Read more »

TONY WALSH’S THEATRICAL EXIT

March 25, 2021

AN IMPRESSIVE pile off Sweetmount Avenue in Dundrum – Churchtown House – is on the market with a near €3m price tag. There... Read more »

TACKLING JP HARTIGAN

March 11, 2021

A COMPANY called Shadowman Sports Ltd has collapsed into liquidation, which may come as a surprise to fans of the sporting innovations of... Read more »

PRIDE PROFITS

March 11, 2021

WITH THE pandemic likely to scupper yet another Dublin Pride jamboree next summer (following last year’s virtual hooley), Jed Dowling’s Dublin LGBTQ Pride... Read more »

ÁINE MORIARTY’S FIGURES

March 11, 2021

OVERDUE FIGURES (covering an 18-month period to the end of 2019) have been filed by Áine Moriarty’s Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA)... Read more »

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