Article Category: Briefcases

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

JOHN MCQUAID’S SETBACK

March 11, 2021

THERE HAS been a setback for Goldhawk’s old friend John McQuaid whose quarry in Clontibret, Co Monaghan, was the subject of a recent... Read more »

BRIAN HAYES’S CAMPAIGN

March 11, 2021

NATWEST GROUP would have known that its decision to wind down Ulster Bank operations in the south was going to require a big... Read more »

YVONNE BAUER’S RADIO WAVES

March 11, 2021

WHAT NEXT for Newstalk radio? A look at the apparent valuation placed on the Communicorp group by Yvonne Bauer’s radio group (see p3),... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S CELTIC CROSS

February 25, 2021

IT GOES from bad to worse for Dermot Desmond in Glasgow, where Celtic continue to fall off the pace set by bitter rivals... Read more »

MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN’S PLANNING FENCE

February 25, 2021

MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN, the tyro horseracing trainer known for his ability to spot a bargain, has found himself on heavy ground over efforts to... Read more »

THE COMERS’ COURT OF KINGS

February 25, 2021

A FALL at the final hurdle for the horse-mad brothers, Brian and Luke Comer, as their bid to turn some holiday apartments into... Read more »

THE LARKINS’ TAXING TIMES

February 25, 2021

THE ACCOUNTS just filed for Vieira Ltd don’t make for pleasant reading for Goldhawk’s old pal Rick Larkin. The figures reveal that in... Read more »

BUNGLE BOOK IN GALWAY

February 25, 2021

FANS OF Goldhawk will be interested to see that the receivership of the Irish end of a multi-million-euro Indian animation outfit, associated with... Read more »

JUDY WOODWORTH’S APOLLO MISSION

February 11, 2021

THE LEGAL action lodged last year by Wicklow farmer David Egar against the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) is winding its way slowly through... Read more »

ALKEN BROTHERS CORKED

February 11, 2021

THE HAPLESS Alken brothers, Anthony and Greg, suffered another setback recently when the High Court ordered the winding-up of one of their companies,... Read more »

CHAY BOWES AND THE ‘SHADOWY FORCES’

February 11, 2021

IT’S BEEN a surprisingly quiet start for Health Reform Ireland (HRI), Chay Bowes’s new think tank that will, in his words, fight “the... Read more »

CONOR MCGREGOR’S LENDERS

January 28, 2021

CONOR MCGREGOR, who is battling a million-euro assault claim in the High Court, reportedly made more than €5m in his humbling defeat to... Read more »

ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’ CLAIM

January 28, 2021

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with a legal saga surrounding the liquidation of Star Elm Frames Ltd (SEF), which was the subject... Read more »

HRI HANDICAPPED

January 28, 2021

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see the Irish Examiner reporting that Horse Racing Ireland, (HRI) has claimed to the Public Accounts Committee that it... Read more »