Article Category: Briefcases

RTE’S TWITTER PROBLEM

March 8, 2018

NEARLY four months after the RTÉ One Twitter account sent out bizarre tweets in response to someone who accused comedian Al Porter of... Read more »

Dr Pearse Phelan’s Midas touch

February 22, 2018

A COMPANY called Midas Health and Sports Ltd has just called in the liquidator after the operation went downhill. The principal here is... Read more »

Chris Shiel’s Star Wars gig

February 22, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Galway high-flier Chris Shiel whose aviation company, 21st Century Aviation Ltd, had a bumper 2017. Shiel is best known for an... Read more »

Greg Kavanagh’s Ballycrag bother

February 22, 2018

INTERESTING to see the taxman getting tough with Arklow developer Greg Kavanagh’s property empire. In a second Kavanagh-related scrap in as many months,... Read more »

Cormac Lohan’s holiday home

February 22, 2018

ROSCOMMON solicitor Cormac Lohan had a tax judgment for over €124,000 registered against him at the end of January. Lohan, who practises as... Read more »

Nick Munier’s taxing year

February 22, 2018

FORMER celebrity restaurant impresario Nick Munier had a judgment for close to €80,000 registered against him at the beginning of February. It’s been... Read more »

Drinks on House

February 22, 2018

A COMPANY called Sykes Hotel Group (SHG) Ltd has just been hit with a judgment for €30,000 over unpaid rates – a familiar... Read more »

Peter Reaney’s ‘religious beliefs’

February 22, 2018

ANOTHER setback for colourful Mayo businessman and blogger Peter Reaney. Originally a plasterer by trade, Reaney dipped into property development in 2006 when... Read more »

Tyrone McKillen’s LA estate

February 8, 2018

A TOP-END Los Angeles housing development with links to Irishman Tyrone McKillen has been catapulted into the US spotlight thanks to an investigation... Read more »

Niall Hade’s unholy row

February 8, 2018

GOLDHAWK’s old pals the Hade family popped up again recently with Brian Hade having just been slapped with a judgment by the dreaded... Read more »

Sharon Clancy’s Bloodstone blues

February 8, 2018

SPARE a thought for Sharon Clancy, wife of low profile Cavan property developer Martin Clancy, who has just had a hefty €2m judgment... Read more »

Finian Brannigan’s tax cert

February 8, 2018

SPARE a thought for Drogheda solicitor Finian Brannigan who has just been declared bankrupt in the High Court. Readers with good memories will... Read more »

Ray Egan’s troubled trades

February 8, 2018

A DUBLIN company called Digital Motor (DM) Ltd has had a provisional liquidator appointed to it on foot of a High Court petition... Read more »

Taxing matters

February 8, 2018

A FEW familiar faces popped up the wrong side of the taxman recently. Sean Doyle Entertainments Ltd, the company behind Gorey boozers Paddy... Read more »

Mary Harney’s healthy outlook

February 8, 2018

MORE good news for former Tánaiste Mary Harney whose career in the private sector is really taking off. Fans of Goldhawk will recall... Read more »

Rupert Murdoch’s radio signal

January 25, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised to read last week that Rebekah Brooks had confirmed the interest of her boss, Rupert... Read more »

Darryl Kavanagh’s tumbledown Shack

January 25, 2018

MORE on the sudden closure of the Seafood Shack restaurant in Cardiff, Wales last month where Waterford businessman Darryl Kavanagh has popped up.... Read more »

More Pembroke problems for Peter Conlon

January 25, 2018

IT’S BEEN a tough start to 2018 for Geneva-based charity tech guru Peter Conlon after the High Court ordered the liquidation of one... Read more »

Emmet O’Neill’s boardroom moves

January 25, 2018

MORE manoeuvres at Niall Harbison’s media company, LD Lovin Dublin Ltd, where Denis O’Brien’s nephew Emmet O’Neill has just joined the board. Meanwhile,... Read more »

Taxman’s tough medicine

January 25, 2018

GOLDHAWK spotted some familiar names that have popped up in Stubbs Gazette since the start of the year. Dr Naveed Khawaja, a consultant... Read more »

McNamara’s Donabate development

January 25, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Bernard McNamara who was given the green light late last year to build his first residential development since the crash. McNamara... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »