Article Category: Brief Cases

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 »

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 »