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Frank McNamara and Theresa Lowe could celebrate after the ending of their prolonged wrangle with vulture fund Tanager. Former Custom House Capital boss Harry Cassidy (below) was arrested by German police and voluntarily returned to Ireland to face the fall-out from his company’s collapse.

ANNUAL 2020: HOT WATER BRIGADE 2020

November 19, 2020
THE MORE things change, the more they stay the same. This year may have seen economic carnage like nothing before, but there were plenty... Read more »

JAMES MCILVENNA’S DOG DAY

November 19, 2020
THERE’S BEEN plenty of good press for ambitious dog treat inventor James McIlvenna lately, but he is facing a challenging year. Just last week,... Read more »

PAUL LANNEY’S APPEAL

November 19, 2020
These are difficult times for grocer Paul Lanney, who runs a SuperValu in his shopping centre in the county Louth town of Ardee. With... Read more »

ALI RYAN’S GOSSIES

November 19, 2020
ALI RYAN, the boss of online gossip outlet Goss, announced last week that her much-talked-about annual awards show, the Gossies 2021, will indeed be... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY ‘EXTRAVAGANCE’

November 5, 2020
WITH THE long-time director of the Law Society preparing to step down in March next year after 26 years in situ in Blackhall Place,... Read more »

PAT BYRNE’S RUCKING

November 5, 2020
NICK WEBB, the Sunday Times business columnist, spotted something of a pattern amid all the gloom of Ireland’s depressing defeat in Paris last week.... Read more »

FAST EDDIE’S COURT DATE

November 5, 2020
SOUTH DUBLIN car dealer and high-profile rally enthusiast Eddie Peterson could be running out of track, with Wicklow County Council having initiated legal action... Read more »

DERMOT COX’S BARGAIN

November 5, 2020
WITH THE examinership of Vernon Foods wholesale fruit operation completed, it looks like the new controlling shareholder, retail king Dermot Cox, may have got... Read more »

KIERAN GANNON’S LATEST SETBACK

November 5, 2020
MORE BAD news for Kieran Gannon, who has once again struck out on a planning application for his ambitious plans for the old Smurfit... Read more »

RICHARD SPENCE’S DIGITAL CLINIC

November 5, 2020
A COMPANY called Digex Ltd has surfaced with one Richard Spence as a director. He previously made his mark with Beutifi, the beauty business... Read more »

CAULDERBANKS’ TIME EXTENSION

October 22, 2020
ONE OF Donegal’s biggest waste collectors, DM Waste (DMW), has benefited from a planning decision by Donegal County Council. The decision saved some blushes... Read more »

DEIRDRE SOMERS’ NEW HAT

October 22, 2020
GOOD TO see Deirdre Somers keeping busy since she stepped down from the top job in the Irish Stock Exchange, but her appointment to... Read more »

BYE BYE BUTLER’S

October 22, 2020
THE BUSINESS casualties of Covid-19 continue to pile up and it turns out even the backing of assorted Chinese millionaires won’t save the day.... Read more »

DERMOT SMURFIT’S ‘NEXT STAGE’

October 22, 2020
IT’S BEEN a tough few months for the shareholders of GAN, Dermot Smurfit’s internet gambling company, and the Smurfits are busy putting on the... Read more »

PALMARIANS’ PLANNING PROBLEM

October 22, 2020
There was mixed news in Lusk, Co Dublin, for His Holiness Pope Peter III – to the initiated, Markus Josef Odermatt – in his... Read more »

VAN MORRISON’S SOUND FIGURES

October 22, 2020
DUMPY AND grumpy little songster Van Morrison is getting worse reviews than normal thanks to his protest songs against the Covid-19 lockdown. Goldhawk hasn’t yet... Read more »

ALISON CANAVAN’S DREAM BUILDING

October 8, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that California-based model-turned-new-age-guru Alison Canavan has pulled the plug on her Irish wellness coaching business, Tinky Tock Productions. It... Read more »

BEATRICE TOLLMAN’S HOTEL BILL

October 8, 2020
WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the hospitality sector – and little reason for believing things will change any time soon – it is... Read more »

IAN DRENNAN’S LATEST RESULT

October 8, 2020
THE LATEST company director to come a cropper courtesy of Ian Drennan’s Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) is one Shane Murphy... Read more »

MALCOLM DENMARK’S METHODS

October 8, 2020
EARLIER THIS summer, the doughty old Munster Express, the grand old lady of The Quay in Waterford, celebrated the tremendous milestone of 160 years... Read more »

KEATING’S PROBLEMS BUILDING

October 8, 2020
FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that established construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating construction has applied for the protection of... Read more »

BLUE DIAMOND BOUNCES BACK

October 8, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS pleased to see the hard-working Boyle family at Dundalk Bureau de Change has bounced back from its little spot of difficulty in... Read more »

BEN DUNNE’S PREMIER PROBLEMS

September 24, 2020
SPARE A thought for Ben Dunne, who hasn’t been able to open his gyms since March and has now lost a keenly fought planning... Read more »

ABDULAZIZ’S TRANSPARENCY

September 24, 2020
THE PHOENIX Thoroughbreds debacle rumbles on and, several weeks after dropping the bombshell that the big-spending racing operation was exiting British racing with immediate... Read more »

PETER QUEALLY’S PANDEMIC

September 24, 2020
WITH the media’s focus firmly on the worsening pandemic situation in Dublin in recent weeks, meat plant owners were probably glad of a respite... Read more »

GREG O’NEILL’S UNQUIET LIFE

September 24, 2020
TWITTER ERUPTED at the revelations contained in the RTÉ documentary Unquiet Graves about British army murder gangs on both sides of the border. Goldhawk’s... Read more »

PAUL WILLIAMS ON THE HIGH SEAS

September 10, 2020
INTREPID CRIME fighter Paul Williams spent some time on the high seas with “the maritime drug busters”, publishing a breathless piece in the Indo... Read more »

FRANKY WRIGHT’S RENT HOLIDAY

September 10, 2020
WITH IRISH tourism businesses having benefitted from the boom in stay-at-home holidays, Goldhawk presumes that Franky Wright’s Lilliput Adventure Centre on the banks of... Read more »

BERNARD BROGAN’S PERFORMANCE

September 10, 2020
DUBLIN FOOTBALL ace Bernard Brogan is back in the newspapers thanks to his new autobiography, which was released this month. Cynics might carp that... Read more »

KEATING’S LEGAL ISSUES

September 10, 2020
SURPRISING TO see that construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating construction on the wrong end of a judgment for €92,000. The high-profile company behind... Read more »

ZOE KELLY’S WEDDING WOES

September 10, 2020
ACCOUNTS for the impressive-sounding MBZ International caught Goldhawk’s eye recently, but the figures on the balance sheet were a good deal more modest than... Read more »

SWEENEY BOYS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

August 27, 2020
THE YOUNG Sweeneys of Clifden will hardly have enjoyed the notoriety lent to them by coverage of the 80 or so members of the... Read more »

LARRY MURRIN’S JAZZ BLUES

August 27, 2020
POOR OLD Larry Murrin – who owns the Sole Seafood and Grill restaurant on South William Street, D2 – has just got some bad... Read more »

DERMOT SMURFIT’S ROLLERCOASTER RIDE

August 27, 2020
AS ANY good gambler knows, what goes up must come down. Dermot Stopford Smurfit, the now not-so-young tyro who’s been up and coming with... Read more »

CHECKING OUT OF THE WESTCOURT

August 27, 2020
THE OWNERS of the Westcourt Hotel on West Street in Drogheda, Co Louth, are treading familiar ground after calling in the liquidator. The trading... Read more »

CROSBIES’ LANDMARK MOVE

August 27, 2020
The oddly named Bontury Ltd is being dissolved by its owners. This turns out to have been known previously as Landmark Media Investments Ltd,... Read more »