Article Category: Briefcases

Dervla Kenny’s planning win

January 11, 2018

HARD LUCK to Caroline and Veitch McCombs who have had a planning appeal rejected by An Bord Pleanála (ABP), despite the inspector giving... Read more »

Greg Kavanagh’s Globe hangover

January 11, 2018

INTERESTING to see that one of Arklow developer Greg Kavanagh’s pub companies was taken to the High Court by the dreaded taxman just... Read more »

Kenny group’s asylum centre

January 11, 2018

A RAFT of companies in Limerick developer Martin Kenny’s property group have had receivers appointed to them by Howard Stanley Marks’s Oaktree Capital... Read more »

Declan Ryan’s tough medicine

January 11, 2018

JUST BEFORE Christmas, the directors of a company called Growcorp Group voted to wind up the company and appointed Bryan O’Neill as liquidator.... Read more »

Joan Rowland’s roof collapse

January 11, 2018

IT’S BEEN a bad start to 2018 for Castlebar couple Joan and Paul Rowland, who were landed with matching judgments for nearly €1.4m... Read more »

Koger over and out

January 11, 2018

THE FINAL chapter in the winding up of software company Koger (Dublin) Ltd has now been written with the High Court greenlighting the... Read more »

Mary Donnelly’s fraudulent payments

January 11, 2018

A 71-YEAR-OLD former company director in Limerick pleaded guilty recently to generating false invoices after an investigation by the Office of the Director... Read more »

Tax ‘Alignment’

January 11, 2018

A DUNDALK soft drink wholesaler has been slapped with a €1.4m tax judgment for his part in a VAT fraud scheme. Michael Martin... Read more »

Philip Smyth’s hotel bill

December 14, 2017

THE operating company behind the Hampton Court Hotel in Donnybrook filed a scary set of accounts for 2016 recently. Genport Ltd, owned by... Read more »

A date for your diary

December 14, 2017

GOLDHAWK looks forward to this time of year, when the Institute of Public Administration’s Ireland – A Directory hits the desk, jammed full... Read more »

John Lally’s annus horribilis

December 14, 2017

GALWAY developer John Lally has had a tough time of it in 2017 after being slapped with an eye-watering High Court judgment earlier... Read more »

Eugene McCool’s courtroom blues

December 14, 2017

GOLDHAWK’s old pal Eugene McCool had a November to forget in the Four Goldmines. Not only was the Dublin businessman hit with a... Read more »

Christmas humbug for tax defaulters

December 14, 2017

SOME interesting names and companies popped up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters, including Wexford businessman Sean Doyle. Well-known Kilmuckridge publican... Read more »

Michael Flynn stops cleaning up

December 14, 2017

BAD news for Waterford-based environmental services operation FLI International Ltd, which has moved to wind itself up in the High Court after running... Read more »

Gerry Barrett’s Marathon pals

December 14, 2017

TOUGH times for Galway businessman Gerry Barrett who looks set to lose control of more assets in his dwindling portfolio. Meanwhile, members of... Read more »

Leo Fitzgerald beats back the vultures

November 30, 2017

CONGRATULATIONS to Dublin publican Leo Fitzgerald, brother of moneybags pub mogul Louis Fitzgerald, who had a pretty decent result in the Four Goldmines... Read more »

Manley Construction’s medical trouble

November 30, 2017

INTERESTING to see Meath construction outfit Manley Construction Ltd (MCL) has been served a notice of termination by the HSE on the site... Read more »

Paddy Byrne’s planning problems

November 30, 2017

THERE’S NO questioning the ambition of builders Paddy Byrne and Danny Whelan of Victoria Homes. But, as a quick scan through planning documents... Read more »

Gobbledygook

November 30, 2017

A new economic plan for Ireland – David McWaffle, Irish Times Unlike hosting the Rugby World Cup, the global economy is no longer... Read more »

Taxman Cometh

November 30, 2017

A FEW interesting names popped up recently after having judgments registered against them by the taxman, among them Clontarf events promoter Donal Bolger.... Read more »

Hotel hangover for the Creaven brothers

November 2, 2017

HARD luck to Galway hoteliers John and Joseph Creaven who were landed with matching tax judgments for €100,000 last month. The pair owned... Read more »

Paul Stenson’s mixed results

November 2, 2017

THE company behind thin-skinned social media personality Paul Stenson’s Charleville Lodge hotel in Dublin 7 has just filed a revealing set of accounts.... Read more »

Ian Lucey’s latest row

November 2, 2017

INTERESTING to see that Blackrock businessman Ian Lucey’s Lucey Technology Ltd has been hit with another judgment by a creditor. Lucey Technology is... Read more »

Hammond Lane’s metal fatigue

November 2, 2017

HAMMOND Lane Metal Company Ltd (HLM), the Dublin-based subsidiary of metal-recycling operation Clearway Disposal, is having its mettle tested. The company filed its... Read more »

Bryan Wixted’s medical problem

November 2, 2017

SPARE a thought for Bryan Wixted whose DMC Medical Ltd is facing a winding up petition in the High Court courtesy of a... Read more »

Jay Bourke’s latest judgment

November 2, 2017

HARD luck to Goldhawk’s old pal Jay Bourke who has just had a hefty judgment registered against him by the taxman. It comes... Read more »

Niall Harbison’s Manchester moves

November 2, 2017

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal Niall Harbison whose Lovin media group is continuing its social media expansion. Harbo’s lifestyle outfit is in the... Read more »

Brian Cunningham’s latest scrap

October 19, 2017

GOLDHAWK’s old pal Brian Cunningham popped up again last month after yet another bad day in the Four Goldmines. The distinctive Galway developer... Read more »

Ian Mallon’s business interests

October 19, 2017

GOLDHAWK recently spotted an interesting decision in the High Court relating to solicitor Ian Mallon, the principal at Ian Mallon & Co Solicitors,... Read more »