Article Category: Briefcases

DAVID SMYTH’S BLACKHALL BLUES

May 2, 2019

INTERESTING to see that the Law Society has just registered a judgment against Waterford tech outfit Agenda Computers Ltd, where the principal is... Read more »

BLACK CARD FOR BOOZER PLANS

April 18, 2019

PLANS to redevelop a popular pub adjacent to Croke Park have hit the crossbar. Dublin City Council has requested that the Dublin Loft... Read more »

RUTH MORAM’S ‘ABUSE OF PROCESS’

April 18, 2019

ANOTHER chapter in the remarkable legal saga involving Ruth Moram and the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ireland was written in the Court of Appeal... Read more »

TAXING TIMES FOR MARTIN TUBRIDY

April 18, 2019

THE TAXMAN has finally lost his patience with Clare businessman Martin Tubridy. A petition to wind up his construction and civil engineering company,... Read more »

DISCIPLINING CIARÁN DESMOND

April 18, 2019

MORE on Ciarán Desmond, the legal eagle and financial adviser at the centre of a high-profile court case involving allegations of fraud and... Read more »

PETER GAYNOR’S BIG BUCKS

April 18, 2019

MORE GOOD news for restaurateur-turned-construction suit Peter Gaynor, who continues to make a mint in London, having seen his food business back in... Read more »

POOR FORM AT SARACENS

April 18, 2019

WITH MUNSTER heading to England to play Saracens in the European Rugby Cup semi-finals this weekend, it is interesting to see the kind... Read more »

O’SULLIVAN’S DAMAGED FLEET

April 4, 2019

SPARE A thought for Roger O’Sullivan and his scuppered hospitality, catering and tourism vehicle, Ignition, which is being wound up. The group was... Read more »

PEEL AVIATION’S CRASH LANDING

April 4, 2019

INTERESTING TO spot a High Court winding up petition last week in relation to a company called Peel Aviation Ltd. It has taken... Read more »

PHILIP DORAN’S LOAN

April 4, 2019

THE SUPREME Court has sent a near ten year legal dust-up back to the High Court. The dispute between plaintiff, Damien Stapleton, and... Read more »

JAY’S FIRE REGULATIONS

April 4, 2019

Goldhawk’s old friend Jay Bourke has been in the news again. His new bar, Penny Lane, didn’t open as planned last week after... Read more »

TAX BILL FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

April 4, 2019

SPARE a thought for Deirdre Costello and Catriona Kelly who were hit with judgments of €110,000 each by the dreaded taxman. The pair... Read more »

SAILING FOR LABARDIE FISHER

April 4, 2019

Goldhawk can reveal that the fishermen at the centre of a high profile defamation case have decided to pull in their nets and... Read more »

BACSTROKE’S BAD NEWS

March 21, 2019

SPARE a thought for the production company and, er, specialists in inflatable leisure Bacstroke Limited, which featured on the tax defaulters’ list, having... Read more »

RACHEL GRAHAM BOUNCES BACK

March 21, 2019

Rachel Graham and hubby Victor Graham’s Italian-themed Dundalk restaurant, Eno, had a liquidator appointed last month. Entrepreneur Rachel previously owned a specialist shoe... Read more »

RUTHIE H’S HARD TIMES

March 21, 2019

FANS of Goldhawk will remember nutrition entrepreneur Ruth Heatherington and her company, Miss Fit Enterprises Ltd, which has now been wound up. Heatherington... Read more »

JOAN LYNCH’S TAXING TIMES

March 21, 2019

ONE of the companies in the Born Clothing franchise, Born Clothing Ltd, has featured on the tax defaulters’ list, having paid the taxman... Read more »

TV PRODUCER FEELS THE PINCH

March 21, 2019

A busy Ranelagh-based television production firm, Good Company Productions Limited, starred in the latest tax defaulters’ list, having paid the Revenue some €219,000... Read more »

FINAL WORD ON ALAN HYNES?

March 21, 2019

A small legal notice published in the media last week by Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) marks the final chapter in the long-running Alan... Read more »

VITGESON’S MILLION EURO BONUS

March 21, 2019

THE receiver of a Nama-controlled property development company, Vitgeson Limited, offloaded a 59-acre site in Blackcastle, Co Meath, for a healthy €9.5m –... Read more »

THE KELLYS’ EXAM RESULTS

March 7, 2019

THERE WERE some interesting claims in the Four Goldmines last month in a case that could cost the taxpayer a few bob. Interestingly,... Read more »

CAFOLLA FAMILY’S HOTEL KERFUFFLE

March 7, 2019

DUBLIN City Council has pulled the brakes on the proposed development of a Dublin city centre property with some interesting names attached to... Read more »

BREEGE O’CONNOR GROUNDED

March 7, 2019

FANS of Goldhawk will recall the adventures of Galway builder and used car salesman Donal O’Connor, who was declared bankrupt in the north... Read more »

RODERICK SMYTH’S MATCHMAKER

March 7, 2019

SPARE a thought for Roderick Smyth, the founder of the award-winning TempBuddy app and a senior suit at recruitment agency Erecuit. His company,... Read more »

OFFSHORE AT THE HAMPTON HOTEL

March 7, 2019

SOME interesting developments at Crofter Properties Ltd, the property vehicle behind the Hampton Hotel on Morehampton Road in D4. Classiebawn Castle owner Hugh... Read more »

LIAM HAZEL’S ‘NIGHTMARE’

February 21, 2019

GOLDHAWK got a blast from the past recently when he saw old pal Alex Gibbons pop up in the Court of Appeal. The... Read more »

JACKIE GREENE’S PROFIT SPLIT

February 21, 2019

A DUBLIN-based building company, Jackie Greene Construction (JGC) Ltd, had a bad time of it in the Supreme Court last month in a... Read more »

THOMAS FLANAGAN’S ITALIAN PALS

February 21, 2019

CONNEMARA aeuronautics business Éirecomposites Teoranta (ET) has finally gotten around to filing its 2017 accounts. And there was some good news at last... Read more »

DES COFFEY’S NEW JUDGMENTS

February 21, 2019

MORE hard cheese for restaurateur Des Coffey, who has just had two small tax judgments registered against him, less than a month after... Read more »

WINDING UP NICHOLAS KRIVENKO

February 21, 2019

STRANGE to see that a winding-up petition has been filed against a dissolved Co Limerick property vehicle, Riverhall Ltd, by a New York-based... Read more »