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SPARE A THOUGHT for Joe Revington, a senior counsel and a former advisor to Dick Spring, who has recently fallen foul of the Taxman. The Revenue has just landed the legal eagle with a judgment of €30,000, which might surprise Revington’s colleagues at the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT), where he is a vice-chairman. Revington served… Read more »

THINGS have gone horribly wrong for highflying Tipperary businessman Edmond O’Reilly, who made millions when he sold his recycling business Clearpoint to Mr Binman in 2007, but who has been far less fortunate with a separate enterprise. Late last year, an O’Reilly company that manufactures cleaning devices, ECTG Ltd, collapsed into liquidation, while its subsidiary,… Read more »

NOT long after a partnership he is involved in appeared on the Revenue’s list of tax defaulters, Cork developer Sean Rainey has had more tax trouble. Earlier this month, the Taxman registered a judgment of €247,000 against Rainey. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 15/1/16) that in December, the defaulters’ list revealed that CDRN… Read more »

THERE’S more trouble afoot for well-known liquidator Barry Forrest, of Forrest & Co, whose adventures will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 24/10/14). Last week, High Court proceedings were lodged against Forrest at the instruction of liquidator Aidan Garcia, in his capacity as liquidator of a company called Sloyan Brothers Ltd (SBL)…. Read more »

AIB has just installed receivers to an Irish registered property development company, Cornerstone Property Ltd (CPL), which was active in the UK and where the principal is Irish operator, Ray Bolger. Bolger has had his fingers in all sorts of pies over the years and was previously in charge of a debt management company, Cornerstone… Read more »

BUSINESSWOMAN Pia Bang Stokes is currently facing the threat of bankruptcy, along with her husband, Jeff Stokes, while elsewhere a company she owns has recently come a cropper at the Employments Appeals Tribunal. The company, Petrolo Ltd – which previously operated the well-known Unicorn restaurant (now under new management) – was found to have unfairly… Read more »

DEVELOPER John Flynn is currently involved in a well-publicised shareholders’ dispute concerning the Blackrock Clinic, while in the US, the businessman has recently filed an appeal in a fraud action against the IBRC, for alleged overcharging on interest rates. Fighting for Flynn in the latter action – dismissed by a New York court in December,… Read more »

NOTORIOUS chef Conrad Gallagher is based in South Africa these days, having left a trail of debt in Ireland and the US, where a judgment of $137,000 was granted against him in late 2014 in favour of workers he stiffed out of wages at an ill-fated New York restaurant (see The Phoenix 19/12/14). Back home… Read more »