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IT’S BEEN nearly 18 months since the Second Captains podcast crew decided to down tools at The Irish Times and light out for the trail. Accounts filed by their company, Second Captains Ltd, show that going it alone has been just about worthwhile for the sports guys. Readers will recall that the captains — Eoin… Read more »

ONE name that caught Goldhawk’s eye on the latest list of tax defaulters was Kevin Ginty. The Wicklow-based businessman has had his share of troubles in the past and is best known for his association with the Tubs Sweets brand. The list published last week by the Revenue reveals that the Tallaght native settled for… Read more »

A CURIOUS Goldhawk received an odd response from the Private Security Authority (PSA) recently. The PSA – where the chairman is former Dialogic Corporation vice president Noel Lappin (and Dublin legal eagle Geraldine Kelly sits on the board) – is the statutory body that regulates private security companies. It was widely reported last week that… Read more »

DUBLIN solicitor Christopher Brendan Walsh was slapped with a pair of paltry judgments by the Revenue for just over €6,000 earlier this month. This could put the Castleknock legal eagle on a collision course with the Law Society, which can impose restrictions on a solicitor’s licence if they have multiple tax judgments registered against them…. Read more »

INTERESTING to see the scrap over the sudden closure of the Empire Bar in Swords after the operating company, Lencoolcrew Ltd, collapsed into liquidation. Even more interesting is that Goldhawk’s old pal Patrick Lenaghan should pop up in the media in relation to the debacle. The hotelier doesn’t appear to have any direct business links… Read more »

INTERESTING to see the names of two medical consultants pop up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. Fans of Goldhawk will not be surprised to learn that the good doctors are also embroiled in separate scraps with embattled Co Dublin accountancy firm Houlihan Cushnahan in the Four Goldmines. Readers will recall that the… Read more »

IT’S not every Leaving Cert student that can drag the State Examination Commission to the High Court, but Wexford native Rebecca Carter, who has done just that, has some high-profile family ties. Carter is related to fake tan magnate Marissa Carter, whose burgeoning Cocoa Brown empire has proved exceptionally popular in the lucrative Irish cosmetics… Read more »

THERE IS rarely a dull moment with Robbie Fox, whose latest legal scrap at the start of this summer saw the landlord of his D4 restaurant fail to get an injunction. While business continues in Ballsbridge, a couple of old Fox flops have now come to a final standstill and it turns out that picking… Read more »

THERE HAS been another setback for Limerick-based liquidator Anthony J Fitzpatrick, who has just had three judgments registered against him for a total of almost €50,000 by another liquidator, Myles Kirby of Kirby Healy. These relate to legal costs awards made against Fitzpatrick personally in relation to the long-running legal saga over his appointment as… Read more »

THERE IS some interesting corporate activity taking place at a company called Ziering Holdings Ireland Ltd, where the company secretary has just resigned, pointing to failures to comply with company law. This may come as a surprise to the company’s owner, California-based ‘celebrity hair transplant surgeon’ Dr Craig Ziering. Craig is not one to hide… Read more »