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More Bum Notes For Gary Hansard

Date: November 6, 2015 - The Hot Water Brigade

NOT for the first time, Dublin property investor Gary Hansard – brother of Frames frontman Glen Hansard – has landed in trouble with the Taxman. Gary Hansard has just had a tax judgment registered against him for €40,000, which is the latest in a series of difficulties the businessman has had with the Revenue. It… Read more »

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RICHARD WOOD’S TAX BILL

Date: November 5, 2015 - High Society

FORMER BULA Mines director Richard Wood has just come a cropper with the Taxman and finds himself on the end of a judgment for €602,000. It represents the latest setback for the one-time high flyer, who made a name for himself at Bula before that venture came crashing down, leading to Wood being pursued through… Read more »

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John Kavanagh

Date: November 5, 2015 - The Young Bloods

THE remarkable growth in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Ireland years is thanks in no small part to businessman and gym owner John Kavanagh (38), an MMA trainer who counts moneymaking machine Conor McGregor among his fighters. McGregor is now the biggest star in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the lucrative US organisation in which… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

Date: November 5, 2015 - Pillars of Society

The wonder of Michael Noonan’s political resurrection late in life has been much commented on, but what about the renaissance of his job sharing finance minister, Brendan Howlin? A twice-rejected Labour leadership candidate and an apparent relic of Old Labour, Howlin’s renewed rise and rise has been in inverse, even perverse, proportion to that of… Read more »

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DERMOT DESMOND’S DATA DISCRETION

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

IS there no limit to the financial and legal resources that billionaires like Denis O’Brien and Dermot Desmond will expend to battle those sections of the media they do not already own? Between them, the two have launched somewhere between 50 and 100 High Court libel actions against the media, but they have also begun… Read more »

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ISRAELI ARMY START-UPS

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

THE new Dublin Startup Commissioner is get-up-and-go-girl, Niamh Bushnell, who has been getting a lot of airtime recently on RTÉ, Newstalk and so on. Funded privately by the DCU Ryan Academy, her Dublin office is also supported by various state bodies, including Dublin City Council (DCC); Dublin Chamber of Commerce; and Enterprise Ireland (EI), which… Read more »

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JOHN McCANN’S “ASTUTE” PURCHASE

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS plenty of focus last week on Tom O’Gorman’s audacious plan to ‘flip’ the sprawling Kilcooley estate in Co Tipperary for €8m, having bought the huge pile – for years the home of the Ponsonby family – for just €2.1m from Nama two years ago, before also buying the freehold on 950 acres of… Read more »

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DENIS O’BRIEN IN CRISIS?

Date: November 5, 2015 - Affairs of the Nation

HAS Denis O’Brien completely lost it? Launching a lightning legal assault against a relatively inconsequential PR and lobbying consultancy, following on from his efforts to bring RTÉ and the Dáil to heel, seems a little OTT. Not necessarily, given the growing suspicion that O’Brien’s thrashing about owes more to his financial problems than any loss… Read more »

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