Article Category: Briefcases

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

More upheaval at Maximum Media

October 19, 2017

WHAT is going on at Maximum Media, the company behind JOE.ie and HER.ie, where chief executive Katie Molony has just announced her resignation?... Read more »

Ian Gallagher’s tax troubles

October 19, 2017

SPARE a thought for the shareholders at Dimension Media IT Ltd, which is facing down the barrel of a winding-up petition in the... Read more »

Shane Ormsby’s business partner

October 19, 2017

IT WAS reported last weekend that IBAT, one of the largest private colleges in the state, has been slapped on the wrist by... Read more »

Nicholas O’Connor’s disciplinary matters

October 19, 2017

SPARE a thought for Wexford number cruncher Nicholas O’Connor who has (yet again) fallen foul of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Body (CARB), the... Read more »

End of Term

October 19, 2017

WHILE ASSORTED educational establishments around the country have been closed this week as a result of ex-Hurricane Ophelia, one operation that will be... Read more »

Peter Conlon’s dynamic problem

October 5, 2017

BAD NEWS for former ‘Rich List’ regular Peter Conlon, who has reinvented himself as a charity technology guru courtesy of his Ammado platform,... Read more »

Oliver Connolly’s Russian connection

October 5, 2017

SO FAREWELL then to the Russia Irish Cultural Foundation (RICF), a strange outfit incorporated to “promote cultural awareness and the advance of cultural... Read more »

Lindsey Holmes’s blind date

October 5, 2017

SURPRISING perhaps that the assorted showbiz hacks have not reported on the PR boo-boo associated with TV3’s much anticipated new show, Blind Date,... Read more »

How €2,000,000 was wasted on 23 Wolfe Tone St

October 5, 2017

THE PUBLICATION of the 2016 annual report of Seamus McCarthy, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), featured a number of long-running cases, with... Read more »

Mark Monks’ “audacious” behaviour

October 5, 2017

THE HIGH Court has just issued a ruling on proceedings taken by Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) against one Mark Monks, which effectively brings... Read more »