Article Category: Briefcases

DERMOT DESMOND’S DIRECTOR

July 27, 2023

DERMOT DESMOND continues to slowly ring the changes at his Sporting Emporium casino business off Grafton Street. Last month, he pulled in the... Read more »

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PATRICK KIELTY’S RIGHT HAND MAN

July 27, 2023
WHILE THERE has been plenty of media coverage of the gap between the pay packet for the incoming host of The Late Late Show,... Read more »

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BARTH O’NEILL’S INTERESTING LENDER

July 27, 2023

AN ENTERTAINING tussle between Kerry builder Barth O’Neill and his lender, Golden Door Lending (GDL), was settled in the Four Goldmines recently. In... Read more »

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DOIREANN GARRIHY’S SPLASH

July 13, 2023

AS REPORTS emerged of the various money-making wheezes of RTÉ broadcaster Doireann Garrihy, Montrose claimed it was an “editorial” decision to host a... Read more »

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YVONNE BRADY’S SHORTS

July 13, 2023

A FAIR few of the companies that featured on the Irish version of Dragons’ Den have come a cropper over the years and... Read more »

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MOVIE PRODUCERS’ BIG BUDGETS

July 13, 2023

AT AN Oireachtas committee hearing on the Section 481 tax credit earlier this month (see p17), Susan Kirby’s film and television lobby group,... Read more »

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CROWLEY’S EXPENSIVE ROOMS

July 13, 2023
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p23) the finances of the listed Dalata Hotels Group are analysed. One “case study” included relates to the opening... Read more »

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PIZZA YARD SLICED

June 29, 2023

THE SUDDEN closure of Pizza Yard in Ranelagh should not really have come as a surprise. A message was uploaded last week to... Read more »

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PROFITABLE PRIDE

June 29, 2023

WITH THE month-long Pride festivities over for another year, the crew behind the big Dublin Pride parade and various shindigs can start to... Read more »

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‘EXTREMELY CONCERNED’ TV PRODUCERS

June 29, 2023

AS FANS of Goldhawk are well aware, the Irish TV and movie sector provides rich pickings for the coterie of movers and shakers... Read more »

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COUNTING ‘THE CURRENCY’

June 29, 2023

THIS WEEK, the boys from The Currency have been making the news as well as covering it (see p3) but the good news... Read more »

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DESMOND’S SURGICAL STRIKE

June 29, 2023

A LOW-profile tech company called Intumed Ltd was quietly wound up last month. It turns out to have been heavily backed by Dermot... Read more »

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CORMAC LOHAN’S COSTS

June 15, 2023

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Athlone legal eagle Cormac Lohan, has suffered yet another setback, this time over a legal costs adjudication relating to the... Read more »

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SEAWEED COMPANY SINKS

June 15, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a liquidator (Flavien Kelly) has just been appointed to The Seaweed Company Blue Turtle Ltd, the Irish subsidiary... Read more »

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IAN LUCEY’S GUARANTEES

June 15, 2023

HAVING COME pretty close to the edge on a couple of occasions, serial tech investor Ian Lucey’s investment vehicle, Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL),... Read more »

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CHRIS WHOLEY’S SETBACKS

June 15, 2023
INTERESTING TO see long-established engineering business KC Civil Engineering Ltd (KCCE) on the wrong end of a judgment for €66,000 from suppliers Stakelums Hardware... Read more »

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TOM HIGGINS GETS READY TO BLAST OFF

June 1, 2023

COULD MINTED Tom ‘Psychics Live’ Higgins be about to finally blast off for space, 18 years after he stumped up the equivalent of... Read more »

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MORE MILLIONS FOR MOVIES

June 1, 2023

ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin is currently seeking applications from “suitably qualified candidates” for two vacancies on the board of the state film funding... Read more »

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FERGAL NAUGHTON’S SALES

June 1, 2023

GLEN DIMPLEX heir Fergal Naughton and his missus, Rachael, are selling up their Georgian mansion in Howth, Drumleck House – with a cool... Read more »

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PIOTR SKOCZYLAS’S SOLICITORS

June 1, 2023

MALTA-BASED Piotr Skoczylas, the man behind Scotchstone Capital, continues to battle on bravely in his decade-long campaign to secure compensation for the government’s... Read more »

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RITA CROSBIE’S BATTLES

May 18, 2023

GOOD NEWS for Rita Crosbie (Harry’s missus), with Dublin City Council having given the thumbs up for two retail kiosks on Grand Canal... Read more »

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RIO BRAVO

May 18, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the coverage in the Business Post earlier this month of Paddy Cosgrave’s latest Web Summit (WS) shindig – in... Read more »

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SIOBHÁN TIGHE’S LEISURELY LIQUIDATION

May 18, 2023

A COMPANY called Coral Leisure Askeaton Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation, which must have come as something of a surprise to followers... Read more »

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PLOT TWIST FOR FILM PRODUCERS

May 18, 2023

IRELAND’S ASSORTED movie moguls, still high on this year’s awards season, will have plenty to chew over after reading the Oireachtas budgetary oversight... Read more »

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O’KANE FAMILY’S FORESTS

May 18, 2023

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18), Goldhawk takes a look at the sale price changes associated with a valuable Foxrock house owned by... Read more »

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LISA MCGOWAN’S BIG PLANS

May 4, 2023

LISA McGOWAN, the fashion blogger and influencer, betrayed a touch of frustration in her interview with the Sindo’s gossip queen, Niamh Horan, last... Read more »

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OOKS A DAISY!

May 3, 2023

THE ODDLY named Zulleon Ltd has gone into liquidation, despite a share register choc-a-bloc with KPMG heavy hitters, some of who recently scooped... Read more »

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TAXING TIMES IN WEXFORD

May 3, 2023

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment for €237,000 against a company called Wexpack International Trading Company Ltd, which doesn’t appear to... Read more »

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DUBLIN’S DISASTER MOVIE

May 3, 2023

A COMPANY with the unwieldy name of Finance For An Italian Library Of Movies plc (Film) has been placed in receivership, almost 25... Read more »

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AVVIO’S AI BONUS

April 20, 2023

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is generating quite the buzz at the moment but an Irish hotel booking software company, Avvio, that has been working... Read more »

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FILM PRODUCERS’ PROFITABLE PLOT

April 19, 2023

THE LOBBY organisation for film and television producers, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), has just delivered a nice plot in its latest accounts, covering... Read more »

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MICHELLE HETHERINGTON’S CURATED COLLAPSE

April 19, 2023

A COMPANY called Curated Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This entity turns out to be linked to high-profile design company David James... Read more »

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CLADDAGH’S BIDEN BOOST

April 19, 2023

THE SINDO was rapturous in its reporting that Sleepy Joe Biden was gifted a vinyl copy of Almost Everything – a spoken-word album... Read more »

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MARISSA CARTER’S GLOW-UP

April 6, 2023

IT HAS been a busy few months for Marissa Carter, who was chosen as Newstalk’s Eversheds Sutherland-sponsored ‘Business Person of the Month’ for... Read more »

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MICHAEL WOODLOCK’S WOES

April 6, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see his old pal, Michael Woodlock (whose brother-in-law was former Fianna Fáil North Tipp TD Michael O’Kennedy), generating headlines... Read more »

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GOD’S FEATURES

April 6, 2023

FOLLOWING THE Oscars hype in Ireland, man of the moment Paul Mescal pops up on screen again with God’s Creatures (see review p22),... Read more »

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