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JOE MACKEN’S LANDLORD BLUES

January 10, 2019

HIPSTER restaurateur Joe Macken is used to getting a soft ride from the press. So it was no surprise that he was treated... Read more »

RESTRICTING PIA BANG

January 10, 2019

MORE setbacks for boom-era power couple Pia Bang-Stokes and Jeff Stokes. Before Christmas, the pair consented to a restriction order in the High... Read more »

ZABRINA SHORTT’S DAY JOB

January 10, 2019

THE activities of Irish scientologists made headlines just before Christmas after a Prime Time special revealed the church had just 87 Irish members,... Read more »

PETER CONLON’S RETURN

January 10, 2019

HAPPY New Year to Peter Conlon, who has just returned home from his sojourn in a Swiss slammer after pleading guilty to embezzling... Read more »

TAXMAN WOKS RESTAURANT OWNERS

January 10, 2019

GOLDHAWK spotted two Dublin restaurant owners who have a lot on their plate at the moment. It seems the taxman has worked up... Read more »

PHILIP SMYTH’S LATEST LOSSES

January 10, 2019

GENPORT Ltd, the company behind Hampton Court Hotel in Donnybrook, D4, has just filed yet another troubling set of accounts. The venture has... Read more »

MICHAEL TIERNEY’S LEGACY DEBT

January 10, 2019

GOLDHAWK spotted that Real Bars Ltd, the company behind the Riverbank House Hotel in Ferrybank, Co Wexford, has had to call in the... Read more »

LISA MURPHY’S LATE FILING

January 10, 2019

GOLDHAWK got a blast from the past recently when he spotted that New Lisa Life Ltd was listed for striking off the register... Read more »

A DIARY FOR YOUR DATE

December 14, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware of the value he places on the significant source of information that is the annual diary/director published... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S ‘GOOD GOVERNANCE’

December 13, 2018

MARY ROBINSON has decided to step down from the board of her climate change foundation, where she was in situ for many years.... Read more »

SIMONE ROCHA’S ‘NONLINEAR WAY’

December 13, 2018

THE CHRISTMAS shopping frenzy should help further boost the overflowing coffers of London-based fashion designer Simone Rocha (daughter of John and Odette Rocha).... Read more »

IFTA’S NEW STAR SIGNING

December 13, 2018

HAVING STARTED out this year staring down the barrel of the Revenue’s gun, Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins – the drivers of the... Read more »

IAN GLASS’S TRACK RECORD

December 13, 2018

THE HIGH Court has ordered the liquidation of a Waterford company called Galmor Ltd, which previously published the free sheet Waterford Today. This... Read more »

PETER GAYNOR’S LONDON LIFE

December 13, 2018
NEXT WEEK the latest chapter in the Capital Foods group story will unfold when a creditors meting is held for Peter Gaynor’s Capital Food... Read more »

ALISTAIR LANIGAN-O’KEEFFE’S RECIPE

December 13, 2018

SPARE A thought for Alistair Lanigan-O’Keeffe, who has just been declared bankrupt. The restaurateur is a well-regarded operator on the Cork scene, best... Read more »

SECRET ‘SEPTICEYE’

December 13, 2018

THE NEWS that a young Irishman made the world top 10 list of YouTube earners, as determined by Forbes magazine, took many people... Read more »

DAVID LYNCH’S WINDFALL

November 29, 2018

THE DAVID Lynch-owned Capital Cover Group (CCG), which includes Brennan Insurances – one of the country’s oldest insurance operators – was bought by... Read more »

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S D2 DESTINATION

November 29, 2018

GOLDHAWK has reported on the rise and rise of Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, but not all Sino-Gaelic endeavours are thriving. Earlier this... Read more »

WILL DOWLING’S LANGUAGE PROBLEM

November 29, 2018

WITH LOTS of businesses seeking a slice of the growing English-language tuition sector, there have been a few casualties. One entity that has... Read more »

PADDY MCKILLEN’S PROFITS

November 29, 2018

WHILE THE media has increasingly focused on the ubiquitous Paddy McKillen jnr’s exhausting expansion of the Press Up group, behind the scenes his... Read more »

SONYA LENNON’S MANY HATS

November 29, 2018

WITH MOVES being made to introduce gender-based professorships in universities and the news agenda increasingly featuring discussions about the level of female participation... Read more »

JOHN BYRNE JNR’S VAST PROFITS

November 29, 2018

ACCOUNTS JUST filed for a company called Santenay Ltd shine a clear light on the vast wealth of the principals in the property... Read more »

SEAN LYNCH TACKLES THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

November 15, 2018

INTERESTING to see that the Irish Times is being sued by a popular Dublin 2 pub. The Swan Bar on Aungier Street and... Read more »

TAXMAN LOCKS ON TO BASTA

November 15, 2018

MORE headaches for the team behind Sligo lock and door manufacturing plant Basta Parsons Ltd, with the taxman filing a winding-up petition. This... Read more »

TRIBUNAL GROUNDS LEGAL EAGLES

November 15, 2018

A COUPLE of troubled legal eagles have found themselves on the wrong side of the Law Society again. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has... Read more »

ADRIAN BLANC’S BILL

November 14, 2018
SPARE a thought for Foxrock businessman Adrian Blanc, who has just been whacked by vulture fund Launceston to the tune of €2.3m. Blanc (also... Read more »

GRAHAM CANNING’S PUB HANGOVER

November 1, 2018

THERE’S been another blow for former publican Graham Canning, who has just had a second judgment registered against him by the taxman in... Read more »

POOR GRADES AT DUBLIN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

November 1, 2018

SPARE a thought for creditors of Dublin English language school Oscars International, which is petitioning the High Court to have an examiner appointed.... Read more »

CHECKING OUT AT THE ATHENAEUM

November 1, 2018

THE original company behind the swanky Athenaeum House Hotel on the Waterford-Kilkenny border has called in the liquidator, just a few weeks after... Read more »

WINDING UP CARRIGALINE CARPENTRY

November 1, 2018

HARD luck to Cork businessmen John and Brian O’Neill, whose company, Carrigaline Carpentry Services Ltd, has just been wound up by the taxman.... Read more »

ALBIE PURCELL’S GOOD LUCK

November 1, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS (of sorts) are in order to Albie Purcell Jnr, who managed to confound AIB in the High Court recently. Judge Max Barrett... Read more »

CATHAL MALLON’S BUSINESS PARTNERS

November 1, 2018

A VULTURE fund has just swooped on D4 developer Cathal Mallon. The fund recently secured judgment against Mallon in the High Court for... Read more »

JUDGMENT DAY FOR EDMOND O’REILLY

November 1, 2018

IT’S ALL gone wrong for Tipperary high-flier Edmond O’Reilly, who has just been whacked by the Revenue for over €1m. The Clonmel man... Read more »

TOM CONSIDINE’S WIND-UP

November 1, 2018

A PROPERTY vehicle called Western Alliance Property (WAP) Ltd is calling in the liquidator. The directors are listed as Gerry Prendergast, Tom Considine... Read more »

BASSAM NASER’S HARD MEDICINE

November 1, 2018

THERE are more maladies for jailbird Sutton doctor Bassem Naser, who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. The Irish-Palestinian received... Read more »

PAUL DOHERTY’S LATEST VENTURE

October 18, 2018

GOLDHAWK spotted a small Dublin tech company called Software Design Ltd (SDL) that went into voluntary liquidation at the end of August. Happily,... Read more »