Article Category: The Hot Water Brigade

PHARMACISTS FOOT THE BILL

June 17, 2021
WHILE THE news that local pharmacists are finally allowed to start administering Covid-19 vaccines represents a welcome development for the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU),... Read more »

JOHN BRENNAN’S LIFT-OFF

June 17, 2021
HIGH COURT judge Michael Hanna heard harrowing descriptions last week of the experience of some guests of the Killarney Plaza hotel, who were in... Read more »

GERRY PURCELL’S PROCEEDINGS

June 17, 2021
A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called to wind up a property company called Megard Ltd, which is owned by Galway developer Gerry Purcell and... Read more »

LUCINDA KELLY’S POP-UPS

June 3, 2021
WHAT POPS up must fall down, it appears. Popertee Ltd, the business set up by Lucinda Kelly six years ago, before attracting significant state... Read more »

VISUAL’S POOR PICTURE

June 3, 2021
THINGS AREN’T looking any better at the VISUAL arts centre in Carlow, where the colour red still dominates the accounts. The good news is... Read more »

BIROL NADIR’S PATIENT BACKERS

June 3, 2021
STILL NO sign of Birol Nadir’s long-awaited platform “on which real fans can interact with real stars and engage with others who share their... Read more »

IAN SKEFFINGTON’S BIG PLANS

May 20, 2021
A PLANNING application has been lodged by a company called Flodale Ltd for the retention of accommodation at the Hibernian hotel in Abbeyleix, which... Read more »

UCD COMPANY FAILS TEST

May 20, 2021
IT’S THE end of the road for Q-Validus Ltd, a UCD-backed company that emerged on the back of what was called the European Computer... Read more »

NINA GILLETT’S KEY TO SUCCESS

May 20, 2021
DOCUMENTS FILED in the Companies Office by Nindav Ltd show a loss for its first six months to the end of 2019 of €60,000.... Read more »

MORE TUSKAR CREDITORS

May 20, 2021
DOCUMENTS JUST filed by the liquidator of Tuskar Property Holdings Ltd (TPH), Myles Kirby, reveal that unsecured creditors were owed a hefty €3.5m when... Read more »

GRAHAM SPURLING’S SCREENPLAY

May 6, 2021
WITH CINEMAS having been rightly banjaxed by Covid-19, it is not surprising that there have been closures but Graham Spurling and his family look... Read more »

FINBARR CORKERY’S BAD BETS

May 6, 2021
GOLDHAWK SEES that one of the casino companies associated with his old pal, Cork-based Finbarr Corkery Jr, has been wound up. This should be... Read more »

POLLDADDY RETIRES

May 6, 2021
SO IT’S farewell then to Polldaddy Ltd, which is being officially dissolved, 13 years after it was bought over by the Yanks, who, it... Read more »

STUDIOS’ LATEST BLOCKBUSTER

May 6, 2021
THERE’S NOTHING the film and TV business likes more than a good story. And so we have The Film/TV Industry & Ireland’s Economy, the... Read more »

PAUL HOURICAN’S RENT ROLL

April 22, 2021
LAST YEAR a little noticed legal row over the sale of a €3m pile on Wellington Road D4 was quietly settled. The plaintiff here... Read more »

THE HOLDENS’ GYM WORKOUT

April 22, 2021
AMONG THE businesses banjaxed by Covid-19 are gyms, and one high-profile player here, Ben Dunne, has been in retrenchment mode. Oddly, a company he... Read more »

ÉNERGIE SAPPING

April 22, 2021
THE GYM business continues to find it difficult during the pandemic and a number of unhealthy looking outfits haven’t been able to get back... Read more »

NATALE FERRARA’S IRISH OUTFIT

April 22, 2021
WITH BITCOIN and other cryptocurrencies attracting a significant boost in value in recent weeks, it is interesting to look at an operation incorporated here... Read more »

SÉAMUS WALSH’S STAND-OFFS

April 8, 2021
MELBOURNE-BASED Irish moneybags Séamus Walsh has been rutting up against Waterford County Council over his latest property venture – beside the beach in Tramore.... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S LATEST LIQUIDATIONS

April 8, 2021
THE BAD news keeps coming for solicitor-turned-property-developer Noel Smyth, with another raft of his businesses being the subject of creditors’ meetings next week. Dealmaker... Read more »

NOEL KELLY’S INVESTMENTS

April 8, 2021
ANOTHER JUDGMENT has just been registered against the Pulse F6 telematics business where a significant backer turns out to be the private investment company... Read more »

LEX GREENSILL’S IRISH CUSTOMERS

March 25, 2021
THESE ARE nervous times for businesses that have links to the giant UK-based Greensill Capital firm that collapsed into administration earlier this month. Founded... Read more »

JOHN O’SULLIVAN’S CRASH LANDING

March 25, 2021
A COMPANY that provided car-parking facilities at Dublin airport has just gone into liquidation. Parkfly Ltd, where the principal is John O’Sullivan, has suffered... Read more »

TONY WALSH’S THEATRICAL EXIT

March 25, 2021
AN IMPRESSIVE pile off Sweetmount Avenue in Dundrum – Churchtown House – is on the market with a near €3m price tag. There have... Read more »

TACKLING JP HARTIGAN

March 11, 2021
A COMPANY called Shadowman Sports Ltd has collapsed into liquidation, which may come as a surprise to fans of the sporting innovations of JP... Read more »

ÁINE MORIARTY’S FIGURES

March 11, 2021
OVERDUE FIGURES (covering an 18-month period to the end of 2019) have been filed by Áine Moriarty’s Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA) and... Read more »

JOHN MCQUAID’S SETBACK

March 11, 2021
THERE HAS been a setback for Goldhawk’s old friend John McQuaid whose quarry in Clontibret, Co Monaghan, was the subject of a recent ruling... Read more »

BRIAN HAYES’S CAMPAIGN

March 11, 2021
NATWEST GROUP would have known that its decision to wind down Ulster Bank operations in the south was going to require a big PR... Read more »