Article Category: Briefcases

THE GREENWOODS’ FAILED RECIPE

May 30, 2024

THE LIQUIDATOR of Cooks Academy Ltd (CAL) has just filed his penultimate report into the winding up of the eponymous cookery school established... Read more »

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RAYMOND KIRK’S BLOCKBUSTERS

May 16, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for Raymond Kirk, a Dublin 2-based first assistant director who has clearly been doing rather well for himself, courtesy... Read more »

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RESTRICTING PAUL NYHAN (II)

May 16, 2024

AFTER A whopping 38 outings in the High Court, insolvency expert PJ Lynch has finally witnessed the restriction of Paul Nyhan, one of... Read more »

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RORY FITZPATRICK’S ‘SPACE DEBRIS’

May 16, 2024

EARLIER THIS week, Rory Fitzpatrick, chief executive of the National Space Centre (NCS) in Cork, popped up as a speaker in Istanbul at... Read more »

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DAVID STONE’S ROCKY PATCH

May 16, 2024

CONTROVERSIAL businessman David Stone found one of his myriad companies on the end of a winding-up petition from a disgruntled creditor last month.... Read more »

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PUNCHESTOWN HIGH FLYERS

May 16, 2024

THERE WERE a couple of familiar moneybags getting stuck into the action at the Punchestown horse racing festival earlier this month, with mixed... Read more »

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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S RUBY

May 2, 2024

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p16), we profile new pop-dance sensation Lyra (aka Laura McNamara), who has been benefiting from the business muscle... Read more »

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MICHAEL LYNCH’S LIMERICK GIG

May 2, 2024

REPORTS OF colossal double bets being struck and landed were rife at the Limerick races last month, when the well-punted Declan Queally pair,... Read more »

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HARISH BANSAL’S BIG TAX BILL

May 2, 2024

ONE OF the bigger judgments that Goldhawk has come across in recent times popped up in Stubbs Gazette last month, where one Harish... Read more »

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SEAN MULRYAN’S INVESTMENT

May 2, 2024

GOLDHAWK SPIES a familiar face among the backers of Patrick Kirby’s digital ticketing business, Tixserve. Tixserve has been attracting a fair deal of... Read more »

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LIGHTS, CAMERA…

May 2, 2024

WITH PLANS having been drawn up for new mega film studio developments in west Dublin and Wicklow, and other local authorities anxious to... Read more »

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OLIVER TATTAN’S NEW VENTURE

April 18, 2024

THE multi-hatted Oliver Tattan is getting back into the health insurance game, in tandem with Aviva, although the name of the new venture... Read more »

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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

April 18, 2024

Join the Harris juggernaut. Enda Kenny speech at Fine Gael’s ard fheis I’d read a lot about the ancient Celtic warriors going into... Read more »

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DENIS O’BRIEN’S ‘LOVE ISLAND’ PRESENTER

April 18, 2024

IN GLASGOW last week, Capital Scotland radio listeners had their first taste of a brand new breakfast show presenter after the station was... Read more »

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GRÁ FOR GRÁ AR AN TRÁ

April 18, 2024

AT A time when RTÉ is facing severe budgetary constraints, it is interesting that the latest round of programme funding from the media... Read more »

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SUZANNE GILHOOLY’S JEWELS

April 18, 2024

GOLDHAWK NOTES that the taxman has registered a judgment for a less than blingy €2,400 against a company called C&S Jewellery Ltd, where... Read more »

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PURCELL CONSTRUCTION’S €150,000 OFFER

April 18, 2024

ALMOST THREE years on from the liquidation of Megard Ltd, the company involved in the construction of the Hyde Square apartment block in... Read more »

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CATCHING UP WITH JOHNNIE COOKE

April 4, 2024

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p19), Goldhawk takes a look at an operation called Green Bird, which was established by one Killian Bewley... Read more »

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NOEL MORAN’S CAR TROUBLE

April 4, 2024

THERE WAS a potentially expensive setback in the High Court last month for Noel Moran of Noel Moran Recovery, when his damages claim... Read more »

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HEAVY GOING FOR FOLEY AND PARKIN

April 4, 2024

“WE’RE NEARLY like family and I treat him like a brother,” was a recent remark by the minted founder of Clipper Logistics, Steve... Read more »

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CYRIL MURPHY’S NETWORK ERROR

April 4, 2024

A MOBILE network data firm marked out as a future star player in the sector, Equiendo Ltd, has just had its connection cut... Read more »

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JOHN PAUL KEANE’S CONNECTIONS

March 21, 2024

THE LUXEMBOURG-based Irish financier John Paul Keane has been attracting a fair degree of media attention as a result of teaming up with... Read more »

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MAURICE GILLEN’S BUM NOTE

March 21, 2024

A NUMBER of companies that were controlled by the king of Galway’s nightclub scene during the boom, Maurice Gillen, are to be wound... Read more »

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COLM O’CUILLEANAIN’S VISIBLE THREAD

March 21, 2024

A FIVE-bed pile in Rathmichael D18 has come on the market with a price tag of €2.8m – steep for sure but not... Read more »

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ROUND TWO AT FOTA ISLAND RESORT

March 21, 2024
JUST ONE month after a settlement was reached in the high-stakes legal poker game between China-based businessman Yuzhu Kang and his former associate, Fota... Read more »

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BRENDAN MCDOWELL’S AWARD

March 7, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell, who landed the Entrepreneur of the Year award at Ali Ryan’s Gossies bash in the RDS last... Read more »

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EXPENSIVE MEDICINE AT CARA

March 7, 2024

AFTER THE rescue of the Cara Pharmacy group of companies back in 2020, the latest figures for the new holding company suggest it... Read more »

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BRENDAN MORRISSEY’S UPS AND DOWNS

March 7, 2024

TECH INVESTOR Brendan Morrissey suffered a setback in the High Court last week when Judge Denis McDonald confirmed a €1m judgment against the... Read more »

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HANDICAPPING MCDONNELL AND CLARKSON

March 7, 2024

THERE HAS been heavy going lately for a couple of businessmen who happen to be fans of the turf – Nathan McDonnell and... Read more »

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COLM WU’S TAXING TIMES

February 22, 2024

THINGS ARE clearly not getting much better for Goldhawk’s favourite hotelier Colm ‘Bo Vision’ Wu (aka Guoqing Wu), with the dreaded Revenue moving... Read more »

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GRANT ASHTON’S ADVENTURES

February 22, 2024

A RATHER interesting business that had been involved in cutting-edge integrated circuit technology architecture – and featuring a rather exotic shareholder base –... Read more »

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BERNARD CALDWELL’S MEMBERS

February 22, 2024

THERE WAS some off-track activity in the horseracing world this month, with Bernard Caldwell’s Irish Stable Staff Association (ISSA) holding its AGM last... Read more »

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CLOCK TICKING FOR FLEXTIME

February 22, 2024

THERE WAS a suitably glowing write-up in the Indo’s property pages last week featuring a house called Ard Aoibhinn in Dundrum, south Co... Read more »

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THE BROWNS PULL THE PLUG

February 8, 2024

THE SURPRISE dispersal of the entire string of racehorses owned by Andy and Gemma Brown, the star of which was Grade 1 Future... Read more »

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SHANE KENNY’S BURRITOS

February 8, 2024

THIS WEEK sees a creditors’ meeting being held for Poblano Ltd, which turns out to be the company behind Mexican burrito chain Tolteca,... Read more »

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WINDING UP DELTA INDEX

February 8, 2024

WITH MICHAEL O’Shea busy making an impact thanks to his Pulse Market cloud-based platform, which loftily promises to help companies “do business for... Read more »

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