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PETER DEVLIN’S ROOMS

June 27, 2019

INTERESTING to see that No 44 Belgrave Square in Monkstown, south County Dublin, is on the market with a hefty €2.65m price tag.... Read more »

MARTIN SHORTT’S ‘CREDIBILITY PROBLEM’

June 27, 2019

SPARE a thought for Meath auctioneer Martin Shortt, who was recently given short shrift by Judge Seamus Noonan in the High Court. As... Read more »

DEIRDRE FOLEY’S SUMMER SCHEDULE

June 27, 2019

AS A result of an adjournment last week, property speculator extraordinaire Deirdre Foley will have to wait another couple of weeks to hear... Read more »

PADDY STACK WHACKED

June 27, 2019

MORE woe for Royal County builder Paddy Stack and his wife Mary Stack, who have just been slapped with matching judgments for €46,000... Read more »

JASPER COYLE’S TAX BILL

June 27, 2019

DUBLIN tax accountant Jasper Coyle could do with taking some of his own advice. Goldhawk spotted that the Revenue had recently whacked the... Read more »

PEGASUS PEOPLE

June 27, 2019

AN INTERESTING aspect of the winding up of a company called Taballero Ltd – following on from the securing of a €2.35m judgment... Read more »

GIOVANNI VISCARDI’S BOOZE BILL

June 12, 2019

MORE woe for Giovanni Viscardi and Brian Deery, the owners of Bagots Hutton wine bar on Ormond Quay, D7, which closed temporarily last... Read more »

EUGENE MCDERMOTT’S ‘ABUSE OF PROCESS’

June 12, 2019

FORMER stud farmer Eugene McDermott has been battling a vulture fund in the Four Goldmines, but the going was heavy for the Kildare... Read more »

AARON ETINGEN’S COLLEGE BLUES

June 12, 2019

GOLDHAWK recently spotted some activity at IBAT Ltd, the trading entity behind the Dublin-based private college of the same name, and it looks... Read more »

GOD AND MAMMON AND ACCOUNTS

June 12, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to the board of the Catholic Grandparents Association Ltd (CGA) who have moved to prevent it being struck off the Companies Register... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S BOOKS

June 12, 2019

FANS OF self-styled “economist, author and broadcaster” David McWilliams (see p5) will presumably be making their way to south County Dublin this weekend... Read more »

NICHOLAS O’CONNOR’S TAX BILL

June 12, 2019

FORMER Wexford accountant Nicholas O’Connor has had yet another tax judgment registered against him, this time for just over U6,000. The ex-number cruncher... Read more »

HAVANA HEAT

June 12, 2019

SWORDS LASER treatment clinic Havana Therapy Ltd is having some trouble with the local authority. Fingal County Council slapped the company, controlled by... Read more »

VIRGINIA KEOGH’S PETITION

June 12, 2019

INTERESTING to see a High Court petition being lodged earlier this month by the main shareholder in profitable Limerick property company Willowhurst Developments... Read more »

OLGA SHAJAKU’S LATEST VICTORY

May 29, 2019

MORE GOOD news for Goldhawk’s favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, who got a good result from the Supreme Court last week, which means... Read more »

CLOCK TICKING FOR CHOCKABLOCK

May 29, 2019

THE COMPANY that was behind the impressive Carton House estate in Co Kildare – Chockablock Ltd – is to be the subject of... Read more »

THOMAS COOK’S HAPLESS INVESTORS

May 29, 2019

GOLDHAWK was interested to spot that among the casualties in the Thomas Cook Group share meltdown is the pension fund of the Northern... Read more »

RICHARD SPENCE’S SALON SETBACK

May 29, 2019

THINGS HAVE turned ugly for Beautifi, the beauty technology outfit established by Richard Spence a few years ago to ‘revolutionise’ the salon booking... Read more »

RED INK AT PINK SANDS

May 29, 2019

THE REVENUE has registered a judgment against a company called Pink Sands Property Investments Ltd, which has form when it comes to this... Read more »

DENIS DESMOND’S INVESTMENTS

May 29, 2019

IN THIS issue, Goldhawk profiles promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond, who has quite a varied array of investments. While some are connected to MCD’s... Read more »

LISA DUFFY’S CREDITORS MEETINGS

May 16, 2019

GOLDHAWK NOTES that two companies in the Cari’s Closet retails fashion group are being wound up, with creditors’ meetings due to be held... Read more »

BERNIE MADOFF’S IRISH FEEDER FUND

May 16, 2019

OVER A decade after details emerged about the huge Ponzi scheme operated by US fraudster Bernie Madoff, a filing in the Companies Office... Read more »

JAMES KEARNEY’S ‘UNDUE INFLUENCE’

May 16, 2019

A JUDGMENT for €98,000 has just been registered by AIB against a small property vehicle, Rostaff Developments Ltd. This is the Galway construction... Read more »

SIMON KENNEDY’S ‘BATTLEGROUND’

May 16, 2019

THERE WAS more woe for colourful Wexford solicitor Simon Kennedy in the High Court recently concerning his scrap with a bank over an... Read more »

MYLES CROFTON’S BOOM-ERA BUDDY

May 16, 2019

DUBLIN developer Myles Crofton’s comeback is well and truly under way. The Irish Times reported this month that he has applied for permission... Read more »

TOP MARKS FOR RM

May 16, 2019

SPARE A thought for Michael and Brendan Kelly’s KPW Print operation in Ballinasloe, which has missed out on a contract with the State... Read more »

SEAN LYONS’S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO

May 2, 2019

IS THE apocalypse approaching for Sean Lyons’s troubled company, Doomsday Challenge Ltd? Yet again, the firm is listed to be struck off the... Read more »

PETER QUEALLY’S FOUL EMISSIONS

May 2, 2019

GOLDHAWK wasn’t too surprised to see Kildare-based food-processing giant Arrow group on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) latest ‘name and shame’ list. The... Read more »

FAREWELL FIMAK

May 2, 2019

A COMPANY that found itself the subject of some media coverage last year over the operation of the student Leap Card system has... Read more »

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 »

PAT MCCAUGHEY’S SPICY MEATBALL

May 2, 2019

UNFORTUNATELY for businessman Pat McCaughey, former boss of Dublin-based spice burger maker Walsh Family Foods Ltd (WFF), the crash is still leaving a... Read more »

MARTIN TUBRIDY’S TAX TROUBLES

May 2, 2019

THE REVENUE moved this week to wind up a company owned by one Martin Tubridy in Co Clare. The publican-cum-engineer has had a... 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 »