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TIKTOK TENANTS

January 28, 2021

ELSEWHERE in this issue Goldhawk takes a look at the TikTok players who set up the so-called The Go House before going offline... Read more »

CASTLE FREKE’S VIEWS

January 28, 2021

GOLDHAWK favourite millionaire Wall Street banker, Stephen Evans-Freke, has suffered a setback in his efforts to block the demolition of a former hotel... Read more »

GAVIN SHERIDAN’S HEDGE

January 14, 2021

ELON MUSK’S electric car company, Tesla, has been accelerating in value, reaching $800bn last week. One person who will be rubbing his hands... Read more »

MICHAEL MCLOUGHLIN’S SPORTING TACTICS

January 14, 2021

WHEN FREELANCE journalist Eithne Shortall began reporting on the diminishing returns of Irish sports autobiographies, a name at the very top of her... Read more »

PETER WILSON’S WEDGE

January 14, 2021

IT WAS a torrid 2020 for Eugene and Gene Murtagh’s Kingspan, and not merely because of Covid-19. It also got a good old... Read more »

APOLOGY – PRIME VALUE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (PVMC)

January 14, 2021

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ROUGH SEAS FOR ROGERS BROTHERS

December 16, 2020

COMPANIES HOUSE in the UK has just served a compulsory strike-off notice on City Splash Tours UK Ltd, one of the entities in... Read more »

TOM HIGGINS LOSES ALTITUDE

December 16, 2020

THE LONG wait for former Psychics Live phone-line operator Tom Higgins to blast into space looks set to continue for some time after... Read more »

LUKE COMER’S LONG SHOT

December 16, 2020

A FEW months ago, Luke Comer wrote his name into the history books when his horse, He Knows No Fear, became the longest-priced... Read more »

DERMO’S SQUAD DEPTH

December 16, 2020

IT’S BEEN a tough period for fans of Celtic FC lately, resulting in a brighter spotlight being shone on the Kaiser, Dermot Desmond,... Read more »

DEADLY DIARY

December 16, 2020

THIS IS the time of year when Goldhawk gets his claws on the Institute of Public Administration’s indispensable annual Directory, jammed full of... Read more »

CORMAC FARRELLY’S CONTRACTS

December 3, 2020

AN INTERESTING ruling last month saw Judge John O’Connor refuse to block a senior agricultural hack from moving to the Farmers Journal from... Read more »

KATHERINE SWEENEY’S TANGLES

December 3, 2020

WITH HAIR salons re-opening now that the country is out of Level 5, coiffeurs all over Ireland will be coining it in the... Read more »

WEBSITE WARNING

December 3, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a warning notice appear on the website of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) relating to a... Read more »

SARAH NEWMAN’S MASK

December 3, 2020

SARAH NEWMAN announced her return to commercial life in the Business Post last year in an emotional and candid interview. The interview outlined... Read more »

STOKES FAMILY PLANNING

December 3, 2020

IT HAS been an uphill battle for Pia and Jeff Stokes – formerly of the renowned Unicorn restaurant off Stephen’s Green – and... Read more »

ANNUAL 2020: HOT WATER BRIGADE 2020

November 19, 2020

THE MORE things change, the more they stay the same. This year may have seen economic carnage like nothing before, but there were... Read more »

JAMES MCILVENNA’S DOG DAY

November 19, 2020

THERE’S BEEN plenty of good press for ambitious dog treat inventor James McIlvenna lately, but he is facing a challenging year. Just last... Read more »

PAUL LANNEY’S APPEAL

November 19, 2020

These are difficult times for grocer Paul Lanney, who runs a SuperValu in his shopping centre in the county Louth town of Ardee.... Read more »

ALI RYAN’S GOSSIES

November 19, 2020

ALI RYAN, the boss of online gossip outlet Goss, announced last week that her much-talked-about annual awards show, the Gossies 2021, will indeed... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY ‘EXTRAVAGANCE’

November 5, 2020

WITH THE long-time director of the Law Society preparing to step down in March next year after 26 years in situ in Blackhall... Read more »

PAT BYRNE’S RUCKING

November 5, 2020

NICK WEBB, the Sunday Times business columnist, spotted something of a pattern amid all the gloom of Ireland’s depressing defeat in Paris last... Read more »

FAST EDDIE’S COURT DATE

November 5, 2020

SOUTH DUBLIN car dealer and high-profile rally enthusiast Eddie Peterson could be running out of track, with Wicklow County Council having initiated legal... Read more »

KIERAN GANNON’S LATEST SETBACK

November 5, 2020

MORE BAD news for Kieran Gannon, who has once again struck out on a planning application for his ambitious plans for the old... Read more »

DERMOT COX’S BARGAIN

November 5, 2020

WITH THE examinership of Vernon Foods wholesale fruit operation completed, it looks like the new controlling shareholder, retail king Dermot Cox, may have... Read more »

RICHARD SPENCE’S DIGITAL CLINIC

November 5, 2020

A COMPANY called Digex Ltd has surfaced with one Richard Spence as a director. He previously made his mark with Beutifi, the beauty... Read more »

CAULDERBANKS’ TIME EXTENSION

October 22, 2020

ONE OF Donegal’s biggest waste collectors, DM Waste (DMW), has benefited from a planning decision by Donegal County Council. The decision saved some... Read more »

DEIRDRE SOMERS’ NEW HAT

October 22, 2020

GOOD TO see Deirdre Somers keeping busy since she stepped down from the top job in the Irish Stock Exchange, but her appointment... Read more »

BYE BYE BUTLER’S

October 22, 2020

THE BUSINESS casualties of Covid-19 continue to pile up and it turns out even the backing of assorted Chinese millionaires won’t save the... Read more »

DERMOT SMURFIT’S ‘NEXT STAGE’

October 22, 2020

IT’S BEEN a tough few months for the shareholders of GAN, Dermot Smurfit’s internet gambling company, and the Smurfits are busy putting on... Read more »

PALMARIANS’ PLANNING PROBLEM

October 22, 2020

There was mixed news in Lusk, Co Dublin, for His Holiness Pope Peter III – to the initiated, Markus Josef Odermatt – in... Read more »

VAN MORRISON’S SOUND FIGURES

October 22, 2020

DUMPY AND grumpy little songster Van Morrison is getting worse reviews than normal thanks to his protest songs against the Covid-19 lockdown. Goldhawk hasn’t... Read more »

ALISON CANAVAN’S DREAM BUILDING

October 8, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that California-based model-turned-new-age-guru Alison Canavan has pulled the plug on her Irish wellness coaching business, Tinky Tock Productions.... Read more »

BEATRICE TOLLMAN’S HOTEL BILL

October 8, 2020

WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the hospitality sector – and little reason for believing things will change any time soon – it... Read more »

IAN DRENNAN’S LATEST RESULT

October 8, 2020

THE LATEST company director to come a cropper courtesy of Ian Drennan’s Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) is one Shane... Read more »

MALCOLM DENMARK’S METHODS

October 8, 2020

EARLIER THIS summer, the doughty old Munster Express, the grand old lady of The Quay in Waterford, celebrated the tremendous milestone of 160... Read more »

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