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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 »

ALI RYAN’S TWEETS

August 27, 2020
WITH TENSIONS rising between the hacks and the political minders (see p12), such as the health minister’s special adviser Colette Sexton – the former... Read more »

RAMONA NICHOLAS’S BAD MEDICINE

August 13, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see one of the many companies in the Cara Pharmacies group, fronted by the former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of... Read more »

AMER ABDULAZIZ’S EXIT

August 13, 2020
PHOENIX Thoroughbreds – the so-called regulated fund run by the bolshy Bahrain entrepreneur Amer Abdulaziz that has millions of euro invested in the international... Read more »

SLIPPING AND SLIDING IN SLIGO

August 13, 2020
FOR THE second time in three years, the racing surface at Sligo racecourse has been deemed unfit for purpose, with racing abandoned after four... Read more »

PETE QUEALLY’S PET FOOD

August 13, 2020
WITH THE midlands undergoing lockdown, it is interesting to see that accounts have just been filed for one of the operations that recently succumbed... Read more »

JOAN LYNCH’S DANISH SURPRISE

July 30, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see fashion guru Joan Lynch’s high-profile clothing retail company, Born Clothing Ltd (BCL), hit with a judgment for a paltry... Read more »

DAVID KENNEDY’S SHARE OPTIONS

July 30, 2020
STILL NO SIGN of détente between the board of quoted airline software company Datalex and its former chief finance office, David Kennedy. Kennedy was... Read more »

PUSHING OUT PAUL COYLE

July 30, 2020
THE FORMER owner of Decobake Ltd, Paul Coyle, suffered his latest setback last month when he ended up on the wrong end of a... Read more »

CHRIS SHIEL’S CRASH LANDING

July 30, 2020
SURPRISING To see one of the companies owned by Galway high-flier Chris Shiel come crashing to earth. The good news is that he has... Read more »

SEAMUS SUTCLIFFE’S MANY HATS

July 16, 2020
GOLDHAWK SPIED a judgment being registered earlier this month against Saggart-based accountant Seamus Sutcliffe by AIB for the sum of U137,000. This is not... Read more »

JASON MALLON’S ROUGH RIDE

July 16, 2020
THE EXAMINERSHIP of the company that operates Ireland’s largest food import and export facility at Dublin port, Cold Move Ltd, has failed to ensure... Read more »

LATE LIQUIDATION FOR JANSSENS

July 16, 2020
THE LIQUIDATION of a property company controlled by Johny and Katy Janssens is finally going ahead, two years after a High Court order. It... Read more »

BRENDAN MCQUAID’S FLIGHT PATH

July 16, 2020
GOLDHAWK was surprised to see the name of Brendan McQuaid pop up in legal proceedings issued by a landlord to evict a woman, Hilda... Read more »

KEY COLLECTIONS LOCKED OUT

July 2, 2020
WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the tourism sector, it is perhaps not surprising that some businesses are suffering coronavirus-related side effects. Nevertheless, the... Read more »

LISA DELANEY’S JARRING EXPERIENCE

July 2, 2020
GOLDHAWK spied a couple of companies being readied for striking off by the Companies Office. They turned out to be linked to Monaco-based Corkman... Read more »

DANNY KENNY’S LOW BAR

July 2, 2020
A COMPANY called Midnight Entertainment Ltd is to be wound up at the end of this week. The owner here turns out to be... Read more »

GOFF LALOR’S DISTRIBUTION

June 18, 2020
THE OFFICIAL assignee Chris Lehane has published a list of bankrupts whose estates will be distributed on July 20. One of the more interesting... Read more »

JOHN GILMARTIN’S CHALLENGING TIMES

June 18, 2020
A FINANCIAL consultant who set up a number of companies to provide business advice has seen one of them come a cropper. The good... Read more »

JONATHAN COSGRAVE’S PROPERTY PUNT

June 18, 2020
A LITTLE-known company called AHC Ltd has just been the subject of a notice from its auditors about the keeping of accounting records. No... Read more »

PAUL BLANCHFIELD’S CREDITORS’ MEETING

June 18, 2020
A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called for a company called Frontier Entertainment Ltd, which was behind the failed theatre tourism project in the Liberties,... Read more »

RICK DELANEY’S ROUGH RIDE

June 4, 2020
THIS WEEK sees a creditors’ meeting for a company called Aqua Blue Sport Ltd, which turns out to be the professional cycling team established... Read more »

LIAM DOWDALL’S POLISH HEADACHE

June 4, 2020
IN THE High Court last month, a ruling was made refusing an application to remove high-profile number cruncher Liam Dowdall from his role as... Read more »

MARC Ó BROIN’S PRACTISING CERT

June 4, 2020
SURPRISING TO see established number cruncher and financial adviser Marc Ó Broin fall foul of Chartered Accountants Ireland’s quality assurance committee. It published a... Read more »

DISCIPLINING THE ACCOUNTANTS

June 4, 2020
MARC Ó BROIN was not the only number cruncher who caught the attention of the Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) in recent weeks. Earlier this... Read more »

CUNNINGHAMS MEET THEIR MATCH

May 21, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see a creditors’ meeting called for Market Match Ltd, a public relations and marketing business operating in Ranelagh, D6. The... Read more »

ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘FLAWED’ STRATEGIES

May 21, 2020
ONE OF Goldhawk’s old friends got a bit of a kicking from Judge John MacMenamin in the Supreme Court recently, when liquidator Anthony J... Read more »