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FIONA MCHUGH’S DISAPPOINTING DISH

October 19, 2022

FORMER SUNDAY TIMES editor Fiona McHugh continues to have unhappy experiences with her own businesses, with the liquidation of a Rathmines restaurant and... Read more »

ENDA WOODS’S ‘GLASS BOX’

October 19, 2022

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by an increasingly costly planning dispute in leafy Killiney between private equity titan Enda Woods of Signature Capital and... Read more »

JOHN COLLISON’S PREDECESSORS

October 6, 2022

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by John Collison that millions of euro are to be lashed out upgrading the derelict Millbrook House next to his impressive... Read more »

ALVAN HUNT’S LATEST INVESTMENT

October 6, 2022

THERE’S BEEN plenty of, er, buzz around Hexafly lately, the Irish company that wants to turn insects into animal feed to provide a... Read more »

LEECH PAPERS FILED AWAY

October 6, 2022

A FORMER document disposal and paper recycling business called Leech Papers Ltd (LPL) has been placed in liquidation by the High Court, more... Read more »

ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

IVAN WILDE’S NEW COURSE

October 6, 2022

CHOPPY WATERS recently for fishing boat skipper Ivan Wilde, who has battled complaints from some workers about pay and conditions, while also winding... Read more »

DORIAN’S GREY DAY

September 22, 2022

A CREDITORS’ meeting will be held next week to oversee the winding up of a Donnybrook, D4 restaurant/wine bar business that shut its... Read more »

BARRY O’CALLAGHAN’S HOSPITALITY

September 22, 2022

IT’S BEEN a busy few months in Waterford for tech moneybags Barry O’Callaghan, where he’s been ringing the changes at his swanky Cliff... Read more »

KEATING’S CREDITORS

September 22, 2022

DOCUMENTS FILED by joint liquidators Kieran Wallace and Andrew O’Leary reveal that the hapless unsecured creditors were owed a whopping €18m when Clare... Read more »

NIALL QUINN’S SHOPPING LIST

September 22, 2022

AS NOTED elsewhere (see p18), Ash Quinn, the daughter of former Irish international striker Niall Quinn, has moved on from her chief executive... Read more »

GRAEME DE RENZY’S $16M HEADACHE

September 8, 2022

GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to learn that his old friend, Graeme de Renzy, is in another spot of bother, this time on foot... Read more »

POWERSCOURT POWER PLAY

September 8, 2022

THE BATTLE of the super-rich landowners of Wicklow over staff quarters on the grounds of American billionaire John Malone’s Powerscourt Hotel has now... Read more »

DUBLIN PARNELLS’ OWN GOAL

September 8, 2022
LOOKS LIKE the long-established Parnells GAA club in Coolock, D5, might have scored an own goal following a costly lawsuit. Certainly, someone took their... Read more »

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S WAR EFFORT

September 8, 2022

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p3) Goldhawk examines the awarding of contracts to accommodation providers, particularly hotel owners in relation to the arrival... Read more »

FIONA MCHUGH’S CLOUDY OUTLOOK

August 25, 2022

HAVING ONLY recently found herself on the end of a tiny judgment from the Revenue for just €1,850 (presumably as a result of... Read more »

John Burns Irish Newspaper Archives Problems

JOHN BURNS’S PAPER TRAIL

August 25, 2022

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a curious media piece by John Burns of the Sunday Times last week, in which he wrote about... Read more »

Dermot Desmond The Sporting Emporium Losses

DERMOT DESMOND’S LONG SHOT

August 25, 2022

DERMOT DESMOND must be happy that his casino business off Grafton Street, on St Anne’s Lane, is making a profit these days. But... Read more »

MOVIEMAKERS’ PREDICTABLE PLOT

August 25, 2022

AN ASSESSMENT of the film and television luvvies’ favourite tax credit, Section 481, is currently under way at the Department of Finance, prior... Read more »

HOZIER’S HITS

August 11, 2022

THE FOG-HORN voiced Hozier – formerly known as Andrew Hozier-Byrne, until he was championed and molded by music supremos Caroline Downey and Denis... Read more »

DOWN THE TOILET FOR LUCA MAMMI

August 11, 2022

THE PANDEMIC has claimed another victim with the upmarket bathroom business Profilo Smart, owned by Dublin 6-based Italian designer Luca Mammi, entering liquidation.... Read more »

ANNE DAVY BOUNCES BACK

August 11, 2022

IT’S BEEN a rocky few years for Anne Davy, the majority owner of the controversial Hyde and Seek childcare chain in Dublin. At... Read more »

FLIPDISH V AMAZON

August 11, 2022

THERE HAS been much drooling by business hacks over the fundraising exploits of Conor and James McCarthy, the Dublin-based brothers behind Flipdish, an... Read more »

NIALL HARBISON’S DOGGY TREAT

August 11, 2022

WHAT A surprise it was to see Goldhawk’s old pal, Niall Harbison, pop up in the Irish Times last month. Now living in... Read more »

BARKHILL LOSES ITS BITE

July 28, 2022

IT LOOKS like we will be waving goodbye in the next couple of months to a property company called Barkhill Ltd, which helped... Read more »

ELISHA DOWLING’S HOMEWORK

July 28, 2022

TWO YEARS on from the sudden closing of the long-established Brookfield College grind school in Tralee, when blindsided parents were advised that a... Read more »

THE VEGAN MOODLEYS’ MENU

July 28, 2022

ALTHOUGH VEGANISM is understood to be growing in Ireland (as elsewhere), this did not prevent the collapse of a company set up to... Read more »

LOUIS RONAN’S DEADLY COMPETITION

July 28, 2022

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal Louis Ronan senior will be breathing a sigh of relief after a rival crematorium to his Cork-based Island Crematorium was... Read more »

SENAN SEXTON’S DARK APARTMENT

July 14, 2022

A LARGE property on Elgin Road D4 in the heart of the embassy district is on the market with a hefty price tag.... Read more »

ALAN CURRAN’S ‘SCOUTING TRIPS’

July 14, 2022

MUCH FANFARE was expended last week by the Jimmy Menton-chaired board of Providence Resources in announcing the appointment of Alan Curran as interim... Read more »

GREENCOAT RENEWABLES’ JAMMY CONTRACT

July 14, 2022

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that the Rónán Murphy-chaired board of the listed wind energy conglomerate Greencoat Renewables has been busy renewing the... Read more »

GERRY GANNON’S WINDFALL

July 14, 2022

IT LOOKS like yet another bumper payday is heading the way of developer and landowner extraordinaire Gerry Gannon, who has put the former... Read more »

JOHN COLLISON’S OFFSHORE ENTITY

June 30, 2022

A NEW company has been established following the acquisition from David Davies of Abbeyleix House last year by Stripe billionaire John Collison. He... Read more »

AN CAILÍN BOOM

June 30, 2022

INTERESTING TO see that the development money pendulum at the state film funding agency Screen Ireland (SI) has swung in favour of female... Read more »

DUBLIN AIRPORT’S MARQUEE PLAYERS

June 30, 2022

WITH CHAOS still the order of the day for air passengers passing through Dublin Airport, at least someone is making a few bob... Read more »

SEÁN DOYLE’S ENTERTAINMENT PROBLEM

June 30, 2022

BAD NEWS for expansive Wexford businessman Seán Doyle, whose hospitality company has just been hit with a judgment from South Dublin County Council... Read more »

NICOLA MITCHELL’S BRAVERY

June 30, 2022

PESTICIDES QUEEN Nicola Mitchell, the 2020 EY entrepreneur of the year, who, apparently, is considering floating her Life Scientific company on the Dublin... Read more »