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KEATING’S PROBLEMS BUILDING

October 8, 2020

FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that established construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating construction has applied for the protection... Read more »

BLUE DIAMOND BOUNCES BACK

October 8, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS pleased to see the hard-working Boyle family at Dundalk Bureau de Change has bounced back from its little spot of difficulty... Read more »

BEN DUNNE’S PREMIER PROBLEMS

September 24, 2020

SPARE A thought for Ben Dunne, who hasn’t been able to open his gyms since March and has now lost a keenly fought... Read more »

ABDULAZIZ’S TRANSPARENCY

September 24, 2020

THE PHOENIX Thoroughbreds debacle rumbles on and, several weeks after dropping the bombshell that the big-spending racing operation was exiting British racing with... Read more »

PETER QUEALLY’S PANDEMIC

September 24, 2020

WITH the media’s focus firmly on the worsening pandemic situation in Dublin in recent weeks, meat plant owners were probably glad of a... Read more »

GREG O’NEILL’S UNQUIET LIFE

September 24, 2020

TWITTER ERUPTED at the revelations contained in the RTÉ documentary Unquiet Graves about British army murder gangs on both sides of the border.... Read more »

PAUL WILLIAMS ON THE HIGH SEAS

September 10, 2020

INTREPID CRIME fighter Paul Williams spent some time on the high seas with “the maritime drug busters”, publishing a breathless piece in the... Read more »

FRANKY WRIGHT’S RENT HOLIDAY

September 10, 2020

WITH IRISH tourism businesses having benefitted from the boom in stay-at-home holidays, Goldhawk presumes that Franky Wright’s Lilliput Adventure Centre on the banks... Read more »

BERNARD BROGAN’S PERFORMANCE

September 10, 2020

DUBLIN FOOTBALL ace Bernard Brogan is back in the newspapers thanks to his new autobiography, which was released this month. Cynics might carp... Read more »

KEATING’S LEGAL ISSUES

September 10, 2020

SURPRISING TO see that construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating construction on the wrong end of a judgment for €92,000. The high-profile company... Read more »

ZOE KELLY’S WEDDING WOES

September 10, 2020

ACCOUNTS for the impressive-sounding MBZ International caught Goldhawk’s eye recently, but the figures on the balance sheet were a good deal more modest... Read more »

SWEENEY BOYS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

August 27, 2020

THE YOUNG Sweeneys of Clifden will hardly have enjoyed the notoriety lent to them by coverage of the 80 or so members of... Read more »

LARRY MURRIN’S JAZZ BLUES

August 27, 2020

POOR OLD Larry Murrin – who owns the Sole Seafood and Grill restaurant on South William Street, D2 – has just got some... Read more »

DERMOT SMURFIT’S ROLLERCOASTER RIDE

August 27, 2020

AS ANY good gambler knows, what goes up must come down. Dermot Stopford Smurfit, the now not-so-young tyro who’s been up and coming... Read more »

CHECKING OUT OF THE WESTCOURT

August 27, 2020

THE OWNERS of the Westcourt Hotel on West Street in Drogheda, Co Louth, are treading familiar ground after calling in the liquidator. The... Read more »

CROSBIES’ LANDMARK MOVE

August 27, 2020

The oddly named Bontury Ltd is being dissolved by its owners. This turns out to have been known previously as Landmark Media Investments... Read more »

ALI RYAN’S TWEETS

August 27, 2020

WITH TENSIONS rising between the hacks and the political minders (see p12), such as the health minister’s special adviser Colette Sexton – the... Read more »

RAMONA NICHOLAS’S BAD MEDICINE

August 13, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see one of the many companies in the Cara Pharmacies group, fronted by the former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur... Read more »

AMER ABDULAZIZ’S EXIT

August 13, 2020

PHOENIX Thoroughbreds – the so-called regulated fund run by the bolshy Bahrain entrepreneur Amer Abdulaziz that has millions of euro invested in the... Read more »

SLIPPING AND SLIDING IN SLIGO

August 13, 2020

FOR THE second time in three years, the racing surface at Sligo racecourse has been deemed unfit for purpose, with racing abandoned after... Read more »

PETE QUEALLY’S PET FOOD

August 13, 2020

WITH THE midlands undergoing lockdown, it is interesting to see that accounts have just been filed for one of the operations that recently... Read more »

DAVID KENNEDY’S SHARE OPTIONS

July 30, 2020

STILL NO SIGN of détente between the board of quoted airline software company Datalex and its former chief finance office, David Kennedy. Kennedy... Read more »

JOAN LYNCH’S DANISH SURPRISE

July 30, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see fashion guru Joan Lynch’s high-profile clothing retail company, Born Clothing Ltd (BCL), hit with a judgment for a... Read more »

PUSHING OUT PAUL COYLE

July 30, 2020

THE FORMER owner of Decobake Ltd, Paul Coyle, suffered his latest setback last month when he ended up on the wrong end of... Read more »

CHRIS SHIEL’S CRASH LANDING

July 30, 2020

SURPRISING To see one of the companies owned by Galway high-flier Chris Shiel come crashing to earth. The good news is that he... Read more »

SEAMUS SUTCLIFFE’S MANY HATS

July 16, 2020

GOLDHAWK SPIED a judgment being registered earlier this month against Saggart-based accountant Seamus Sutcliffe by AIB for the sum of U137,000. This is... Read more »

JASON MALLON’S ROUGH RIDE

July 16, 2020

THE EXAMINERSHIP of the company that operates Ireland’s largest food import and export facility at Dublin port, Cold Move Ltd, has failed to... Read more »

LATE LIQUIDATION FOR JANSSENS

July 16, 2020

THE LIQUIDATION of a property company controlled by Johny and Katy Janssens is finally going ahead, two years after a High Court order.... Read more »

BRENDAN MCQUAID’S FLIGHT PATH

July 16, 2020

GOLDHAWK was surprised to see the name of Brendan McQuaid pop up in legal proceedings issued by a landlord to evict a woman,... Read more »

KEY COLLECTIONS LOCKED OUT

July 2, 2020

WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the tourism sector, it is perhaps not surprising that some businesses are suffering coronavirus-related side effects. Nevertheless,... Read more »

LISA DELANEY’S JARRING EXPERIENCE

July 2, 2020

GOLDHAWK spied a couple of companies being readied for striking off by the Companies Office. They turned out to be linked to Monaco-based... Read more »

DANNY KENNY’S LOW BAR

July 2, 2020

A COMPANY called Midnight Entertainment Ltd is to be wound up at the end of this week. The owner here turns out to... Read more »

GOFF LALOR’S DISTRIBUTION

June 18, 2020

THE OFFICIAL assignee Chris Lehane has published a list of bankrupts whose estates will be distributed on July 20. One of the more... Read more »

JOHN GILMARTIN’S CHALLENGING TIMES

June 18, 2020

A FINANCIAL consultant who set up a number of companies to provide business advice has seen one of them come a cropper. The... Read more »

JONATHAN COSGRAVE’S PROPERTY PUNT

June 18, 2020

A LITTLE-known company called AHC Ltd has just been the subject of a notice from its auditors about the keeping of accounting records.... Read more »

PAUL BLANCHFIELD’S CREDITORS’ MEETING

June 18, 2020

A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called for a company called Frontier Entertainment Ltd, which was behind the failed theatre tourism project in the... Read more »