Article Category: The Hot Water Brigade

JOHN COLLISON’S OFFSHORE ENTITY

June 30, 2022
A NEW company has been established following the acquisition from David Davies of Abbeyleix House last year by Stripe billionaire John Collison. He is... Read more »

AN CAILÍN BOOM

June 30, 2022
INTERESTING TO see that the development money pendulum at the state film funding agency Screen Ireland (SI) has swung in favour of female talent.... Read more »

SEÁN DOYLE’S ENTERTAINMENT PROBLEM

June 30, 2022
BAD NEWS for expansive Wexford businessman Seán Doyle, whose hospitality company has just been hit with a judgment from South Dublin County Council for... Read more »

NICOLA MITCHELL’S BRAVERY

June 30, 2022
PESTICIDES QUEEN Nicola Mitchell, the 2020 EY entrepreneur of the year, who, apparently, is considering floating her Life Scientific company on the Dublin stock... Read more »

DAVID COULSON’S ROUGH SEAS

June 16, 2022
THE MARINA company owned by the former CEO of Grafton Group – Ballsbridge-based Mick Chadwick – has just registered a judgment against Dalkey’s David... Read more »

CROHAN O’SHEA’S BARGAIN MANSION

June 16, 2022
A MANSION overlooking Killiney Bay (“on Dublin’s Riviera” according to the Business Post last month) is currently on the market for no less than... Read more »

FAST-FOOD FRACAS

June 16, 2022
IN RUSSIA, McDonald’s made headlines when it was replaced in Moscow by franchisee Alexander Govor’s homegrown version of the burger chain, Vkusno i Tochka.... Read more »

ALAN TORPEY’S TURBULENCE

June 16, 2022
THE EXAMINERSHIP this week of the Ryco book cover company is the second major setback for this firm. Its enterprising principal, Malta-based Irish number... Read more »

DARRYL KAVANAGH’S TROLL

June 2, 2022
IT MUST have come as quite a surprise to the entrepreneurial Darryl Kavanagh to come across a couple of new web pages featuring his... Read more »

DONAL GALLAGHER’S IRISH HEADACHE

June 2, 2022
WHILE HE has been flying high in London in recent years, construction moneybags Donal Gallagher has been experiencing rather serious turbulence on this side... Read more »

MCDONAGH’S COSTS

June 2, 2022
IT HAS been a tough few years for the indefatigable Brian McDonagh, the man who copped a lot of the blame for stopping that... Read more »

ARNAUD GAULTIER’S VINTAGE PERFORMANCE

June 2, 2022
KILDARE-BASED wine importer Arnaud Gaultier recently suffered yet another setback in his continuing saga against the dreaded taxman. Fans of Goldhawk will remember Gaultier,... Read more »

WEIGHT WATCHERS CASH OUT

May 19, 2022
THE BUSINESS and methods of keeping the Irish public ship-shape (at least in terms of sheer bulk) has been an increasing topic of debate... Read more »

PHILIP MAGUIRE’S POWER FAILURE

May 19, 2022
RADIO LISTENERS may have noted an ad campaign by the Roger O’Connor-chaired Sports Ireland Campus, which is spending a fair few bob promoting its... Read more »

PADDY COVENEY’S PERKS

May 19, 2022
SANDWICH MAKER Greencore finally announced a replacement last week for Patrick Coveney, with DAA boss Dalton Philips getting the nod. It’s taken Greencore three... Read more »

OLGA SHAJAKU’S ‘MISFORTUNE’

May 19, 2022
IMMIGRATION LAWYER and businesswoman Olga Shajaku, principal of MS Solicitors in Dublin 8, has been making a name for herself in promoting links between... Read more »

BARRY CONNOLLY’S KINDER SURPRISE

May 5, 2022
WHILE THE confectionery multinational Ferrero was in the news for all the wrong reasons last month due to the Salmonella outbreaks linked to its... Read more »

TYRONE MCKILLEN MOVIE PLOT

May 5, 2022
GIVEN THE number of different players now getting into the high-stakes film studio business in Ireland, it is perhaps not surprising that one of... Read more »

JOHN MOORE’S PORTUGUESE ADVENTURE

May 5, 2022
INTERESTING to see that colourful entrepreneur John Moore has switched address from D4 to Lisbon. It is not clear if the change of surrounding... Read more »

BURSTING THE COLLISONS’ BUBBLE

April 20, 2022
IRISH BUSINESS hacks predictably lapped up the news that John and Patrick Collison, the tousle-headed tech tyros, are now worth a whopping $9.5bn each,... Read more »

JARLATH GANTLY’S BUMPY RIDE

April 20, 2022
LAST MONTH, Jarlath Gantly was chatting to transport minister Eamon Ryan about the latest e-transport sharing scheme unveiled by the Co Sligo-based businessman. Gantly... Read more »

EDMOND O’REILLY’S ADVENTURES

April 20, 2022
THERE HAS been a lot of water under the bridge since Edmond O’Reilly’s much-hyped Trustwater company collapsed into liquidation six years ago, but the... Read more »

RED RAGE IN THE BLACK

April 20, 2022
THE SUCCESSFUL advertising production company, Red Rage Productions, set up 25 years ago by equal shareholders Paul Holmes (CEO) and Gary Moore (MD), has... Read more »

MICHELE ROMANOW’S FANS

April 7, 2022
IRISH BUSINESS hacks, normally starved of a bit of glamour, went ga-ga over Michele Romanow last week, which was proof (if any of the... Read more »

MARTIN CULLEN’S COMEBACK

April 7, 2022
THE BUILD-UP to the Dublin City LGBT Pride festival has begun in earnest as the various corporate entities prepare to display their rainbow credentials... Read more »

TOM RYAN’S LEGAL BILLS

April 7, 2022
THERE WAS no luck for Goldhawk’s old friend, Tom Ryan, whose bid to appeal €8.5m in judgments in the UK has suffered a setback.... Read more »

ELLIE’S BUSY SCHEDULE

April 7, 2022
IT WAS a busy week of news coverage for Ellie Kisyombe, self-described “public figure, politician, mum, food & direct provision campaigner”, as well as... Read more »

CHANELLE MCCOY’S GOOD GOING

March 24, 2022
CHANELLE MCCOY, a former Dragon’s Den dragon raised a fair few bob for her new cannabidiol (CBD) extract company, Chanelle McCoy Health (CMH), where... Read more »

JOHN O’CONNELL’S LICENCE APPLICATION

March 24, 2022
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see the name of John O’Connell, the prime mover in the big West Cork Distillers operation, pop up in coverage... Read more »

THE ITALIAN JOB

March 24, 2022
A HEFTY €1.1m judgment has just been registered against an interesting Irish company called WLE World Licensing Enterprise Ltd with a registered address in... Read more »

SCHOOL OF FOOD’S HARD LESSON

March 24, 2022
AT A creditors’ meeting last month, James Nolan was appointed liquidator of the company that had been behind a training school for chefs, backed... Read more »

WISSAM’S IRISH PROFITS

March 10, 2022
WITH BROADCASTER Miriam O’Callaghan extracting a grovelling apology out of Facebook Ireland over “malicious” ads posted on the social media platform, Goldhawk wonders if... Read more »