Article Category: Brief Cases

ERIK ROBSON’S TAXING TIME

January 29, 2026

THE DREADED taxman has petitioned the High Court to wind up a company called Powerglade Ltd that has links to the popular and... Read more »

LOCHLANN QUINN’S JET BET

January 29, 2026

JUST BEFORE Christmas in the High Court a judgment was executed in favour of a company called Associated Energy Group LLC, which sued... Read more »

‘WHO IS SEAN O’DRISCOLL?’

January 29, 2026

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a blog by Cian Ginty, the editor of cycling website IrishCycle.com, that posed the provocative question: “Who is... Read more »

THE RONANS’ ‘ENTERTAINMENT AREA’

January 29, 2026

MOVERS AND shakers Mairead and Louis Ronan – media personality and scion of wealthy business family respectively – have had little luck in... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S MIXED BAG

January 15, 2026

IT IS, unsurprisingly, rather difficult to say just how much billionaire Dermot Desmond made from the recently announced audacious sale of British nursing... Read more »

LOADED LUAS OBJECTORS

January 15, 2026

FOLLOWING ON from the high-profile judicial review proceedings lodged (briefly) by assorted well-heeled D6 denizens in response to plans for the MetroLink service,... Read more »

CONOR HARRINGTON’S GIANT STEPS

January 15, 2026

WITH THE Irish film sector in the spotlight right now, courtesy of Jessie Buckley et al, it is interesting to note that a... Read more »

MEDAVAL’S TAXING TIMES

January 15, 2026

THE TAXMAN has registered yet another judgment against a medical accreditation company based in Sandymount, D4. This represents more bad news for the... Read more »

RORY GODSON’S DECLARATION

December 11, 2025

LOTS Of coverage of the nod received by strategic communications suit Rory Godson from the City of London Corporation, which bestowed the Freedom... Read more »

ALAN CLANCY’S HANGOVER

December 11, 2025

BARELY A month after Goldhawk revealed that bar and nightclub supremo Alan Clancy had exited the board of the company behind the swanky... Read more »

KELCY WARREN’S RUNWAY

December 11, 2025

THE NAME doing the rounds in Co Waterford of the mysterious investor understood to be offering to pump €30m into William Bolster’s Waterford... Read more »

SEAN MULRYAN’S CRITICS

December 11, 2025

WHEN BALLYMORE boss Sean Mulryan was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in September (see The Phoenix 16/10/25), his press release... Read more »

JOHN BRENNAN’S BLUES

November 27, 2025

JOHN AND Francis Brennan made one of their habitual appearances in the Indo earlier this month, taking the opportunity over four pages in... Read more »

GARRETT SIMONS’ PLOT TWIST

November 27, 2025

ONE OF the longest-running and most intriguing film and TV plots Goldhawk has followed featured the (mostly unsuccessful) efforts of John Arkins’s Irish... Read more »

PIOTR’S ‘GRAVE CHARGES’

November 27, 2025

PITY POOR old Piotr Skoczylas of Scotchstone Capital, who has been fighting a valiant multi-front legal battle against the state, seeking compensation on... Read more »

RUAIRI KELLEHER’S IMPACT

November 27, 2025

IT’S BEEN a rough few years for the once-lauded tech entrepreneur Ruairi Kelleher, who this month had yet another judgment piled on top... Read more »

DESPERATE TIMES FOR DAN MACDONNELL

October 30, 2025

EARLIER THIS month a creditors’ meeting was called for event marketing operation Neon Agency, founded by 100% shareholder Dan MacDonnell. This followed an... Read more »

ALAN CLANCY EXITS ONE CENTRAL PLAZA

October 30, 2025

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that bar and club supremo Alan Clancy has resigned as a director of the company behind his much-vaunted... Read more »

THE GANLEY GANG

October 30, 2025

EARLIER THIS month it was reported that Rivada boss Declan Ganley’s daughter, Rafaella, has been appointed as a director of a new company... Read more »

TOMAS BRENNAN’S THAI ADVENTURE

October 30, 2025

HAVING FINALLY secured a public market listing on New York’s penny stock market, John Kieran Brennan’s family has wasted no time striking deals... Read more »

RUSSBOROUGH’S ROUGH RIDE

October 16, 2025

ACCOUNTS HAVE just been filed for the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) that oversees the running of the historic Russborough House in Blessington, Co... Read more »

A FAMILY AFFAIR

October 16, 2025

THERE HAVE been some tough times of late for John Kieran Brennan, founder of Moralltach, a vehicle set up after the crash to... Read more »

TAXING TIMES FOR DALY AND COLLINS

October 16, 2025

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a hefty judgment registered by the dreaded Revenue Commissioners against a company with links to well-known Cork accountancy firm O’Brien Cahill... Read more »

THE O’REILLYS’ UKRAINE ADVENTURE

October 2, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p19), Goldhawk looks at the upcoming sale of a D4 property part-owned by low-profile couple Eva and Ian... Read more »

WASEEM SAEED’S EXPANDING MENU

October 2, 2025

LATER THIS month, the former Dylan McGrath restaurant, Rustic Stone, on Dublin’s South Great George’s Street is scheduled to re-open as a gastro... Read more »

DOUBLE ACT

October 2, 2025

SEAN HANNIGAN and Clodagh Robinson of the Double Property Group boast an impressive property portfolio, with the company’s website proclaiming total assets worth... Read more »

NIAMH’S NEXT GIG

October 2, 2025

WELL-KNOWN campaigner Niamh Uí Bhriain will surely have been disappointed that her fellow pro-life advocate, Maria Steen, failed to get the nod to... Read more »

DES MCGAHAN’S PRICE WATCH

October 2, 2025

GOLDHAWK NOTES that the asking price for the truly impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale continues to slide, much to the chagrin of former... Read more »