Article Category: The Hot Water Brigade

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

YVONNE BAUER’S RADIO WAVES

March 11, 2021
WHAT NEXT for Newstalk radio? A look at the apparent valuation placed on the Communicorp group by Yvonne Bauer’s radio group (see p3), which... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S CELTIC CROSS

February 25, 2021
IT GOES from bad to worse for Dermot Desmond in Glasgow, where Celtic continue to fall off the pace set by bitter rivals Rangers,... Read more »

MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN’S PLANNING FENCE

February 25, 2021
MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN, the tyro horseracing trainer known for his ability to spot a bargain, has found himself on heavy ground over efforts to build... Read more »

THE COMERS’ COURT OF KINGS

February 25, 2021
A FALL at the final hurdle for the horse-mad brothers, Brian and Luke Comer, as their bid to turn some holiday apartments into permanent... Read more »

THE LARKINS’ TAXING TIMES

February 25, 2021
THE ACCOUNTS just filed for Vieira Ltd don’t make for pleasant reading for Goldhawk’s old pal Rick Larkin. The figures reveal that in 2019,... Read more »

BUNGLE BOOK IN GALWAY

February 25, 2021
FANS OF Goldhawk will be interested to see that the receivership of the Irish end of a multi-million-euro Indian animation outfit, associated with international... Read more »

JUDY WOODWORTH’S APOLLO MISSION

February 11, 2021
THE LEGAL action lodged last year by Wicklow farmer David Egar against the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) is winding its way slowly through the... Read more »

ALKEN BROTHERS CORKED

February 11, 2021
THE HAPLESS Alken brothers, Anthony and Greg, suffered another setback recently when the High Court ordered the winding-up of one of their companies, Emile... Read more »

CHAY BOWES AND THE ‘SHADOWY FORCES’

February 11, 2021
IT’S BEEN a surprisingly quiet start for Health Reform Ireland (HRI), Chay Bowes’s new think tank that will, in his words, fight “the shadowy... Read more »

CONOR MCGREGOR’S LENDERS

January 28, 2021
CONOR MCGREGOR, who is battling a million-euro assault claim in the High Court, reportedly made more than €5m in his humbling defeat to Dustin... Read more »

ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’ CLAIM

January 28, 2021
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with a legal saga surrounding the liquidation of Star Elm Frames Ltd (SEF), which was the subject of... Read more »

HRI HANDICAPPED

January 28, 2021
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see the Irish Examiner reporting that Horse Racing Ireland, (HRI) has claimed to the Public Accounts Committee that it dropped... Read more »

TIKTOK TENANTS

January 28, 2021
ELSEWHERE in this issue Goldhawk takes a look at the TikTok players who set up the so-called The Go House before going offline in... Read more »

CASTLE FREKE’S VIEWS

January 28, 2021
GOLDHAWK favourite millionaire Wall Street banker, Stephen Evans-Freke, has suffered a setback in his efforts to block the demolition of a former hotel and... Read more »