Article Category: Brief Cases

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 »

ODHRAN O’REILLY’S BOUNDARY

October 16, 2025

A LITTLE-known company called Landour Ltd, owned by a minted couple in the heart of Ballsbridge, has just registered a significant judgment against... 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 »

ROWSOMES RUN OUT OF TIME

September 18, 2025

JUST FIVE months after the directors signed off the 2024 accounts, stating in a note that they had “a reasonable expectation that the... Read more »

CIARÁN FITZGERALD’S HARVEST

September 18, 2025

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE agri-industry economist/consultant, Ciarán Fitzgerald, has just wound up his profitable company, Ciarán Fitzgerald Consulting Ltd (CFC). Fitzgerald is well known in... Read more »

LISA DUFFY’S TINY TAX BILL

September 18, 2025

SOME BAD news for another high-profile red carpet designer, Instagram influencer and fashionista Lisa Duffy, who has been off the radar for a... Read more »

JOORABCHIAN’S PRIVATE EQUITY BACKERS

September 4, 2025

IRANIAN-BORN multi-millionaire ‘football agent’ Kia Joorabchian has been making headlines again. Last month he continued where he had left off last autumn, by... Read more »

BRENDAN MCDOWELL’S INFLUENCERS

September 4, 2025

GOLDHAWK WAS not too surprised that Brendan McDowell’s remarkably profitable BPerfect Cosmetics operation did not respond to communications from the Advertising Standards Authority... Read more »

JACK CANTILLON’S HEAVY GOING

August 21, 2025

LAWYER-TURNED-bloodstock entrepreneur Jack Cantillon of Syndicates.Racing has had an eventful few weeks, with bad news for both the syndicate business – courtesy of... Read more »

PAUL DOOLEY’S CLOSING TIME

August 21, 2025

IT’S A case of last orders at the Urban 8 restaurant/bar in Kilmainham, D8, operated by well-known hospitality entrepreneur Paul Dooley, who had... Read more »

AL THANI’S THOROUGHBREDS

August 21, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk reports on the hefty losses incurred by the Al Thani family’s Qatar Racing Ltd (QRL) business... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S RADIO INTERFERENCE

August 7, 2025

IN RECENT weeks billionaire Denis O’Brien has been shouting his mouth off about the likes of Ian Drennan (boss of the Corporate Enforcement... Read more »

PROFESSOR GREEN’S GIGS

August 7, 2025

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED some corporate activity by PR operator Justin Green, who will be familiar to fans of The Phoenix for his militant approach... Read more »

PAT MCDONAGH’S BAD NEWS

August 7, 2025

IT’S NOT too often that Pat ‘Supermacs’ McDonagh reports losses of €½m but one of his multitude of investment companies, Cave Projects Ltd... Read more »

EOIN KEENAN’S WELLNESS BOXES

July 24, 2025

LONDON-BASED Trinity College graduate Eoin Keenan must have been delighted with the extensive coverage generated earlier this month for Goodrays, the cannabidiol brand... Read more »

RYAN MURPHY’S CHOPPY WATERS

July 24, 2025

JUST A month after the Murphy family featured prominently in RTÉ’s well regarded four-part documentary series on the lives of fishermen and women... Read more »

DISNEY’S DEFENCE

July 24, 2025

A MEMO of entry of appearance has now been lodged in Four Goldmines by the defendants in the legal action initiated by former... Read more »

BACKING CILLIAN MURPHY AND KNEECAP

July 24, 2025

MAYBE A slow news day, but there was plenty of coverage of the publication of the annual report for Ciarán Kissane’s Irish Film... Read more »

ALAN CLANCY’S HOSPITALITY HEADACHES

July 10, 2025

WHAT ON Earth is going on with Alan ‘House’ Clancy’s sprawling bar and club empire? Having attracted the attention of the dreaded taxman... Read more »

BEER FACTORY FLOORED

July 10, 2025

THE MOVE by the Revenue Commissioners to wind up Dublin Beer Factory Holdings Ltd (DBF) represents another setback for the backers here, including... Read more »

GEZIM IDRIZI’S FOOD FIGHT

July 10, 2025

THE REVENUE Commissioners are heading to the High Court later this month to wind up two food companies that turn out to be... Read more »

TENI’S BIG BACKERS

June 26, 2025

THE CONTROVERSIAL Transgender Equality Network Ireland (Teni) last week found itself in the sights of conservative media organs such as Gript and the... Read more »

THE OTHER MULTIMILLION-EURO ‘VERBAL CONTRACT’

June 26, 2025

THE HIGHLY entertaining contest in the Four Goldmines between John Magnier and Richard Thomson-Moore over the disputed €15m sale of the 750-acre Barne... Read more »