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 »
TRIONA HARRINGTON’S HEAVY GOING
May 21, 2020
THERE WAS good news for the horseracing community last week when the government brought forward the proposed restart date for the sport to June... Read more »
CALLING IT A DAY AT H&A
May 21, 2020
THREE YEARS after it exited examinership, Healy Design & Advertising Ltd (the company that was behind the H&A Advertising agency) has been quietly wound... Read more »
BART DALY’S CELTIC GOLD
May 7, 2020
AT THE weekend it was reported that insolvency specialists Jim Stafford and Tom Murray of Friel Stafford have adapted to the ‘new normal’ by... Read more »
RONAN LYNCH’S NEW REGIME
May 7, 2020
THE REPRESENTATIVE bodies for publicans has been putting the pedal to the floor in an effort to convince the government to allow them to... Read more »
MARIE BRAMBLE’S BAD MARKS
May 7, 2020
A COMPANY that appeared to be very much honours material in the education field thanks to its popular school app, Unique Diary Productions Ltd... Read more »
DAVID HALL’S BUSY SCHEDULE
May 7, 2020
COVID-19 is keeping David Hall busy. One of the self-promoter’s multitude of tweets last month proclaimed that extra services being provided by his private... Read more »
JOHN V FARRELLY’S ADVENTURES
April 23, 2020
GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal, John V Farrelly, a former Fine Gael politician and a shareholder in ‘free’ energy company Steorn, will be paying close attention... Read more »
FALLON BROTHERS DIG DEEP
April 23, 2020
THEJOURNAL.IE, that right-on source of news for young readers, has probably suffered more than most news outlets due to the Covid-19 restrictions and associated... Read more »
NOT IN KANSAS ANY MORE
April 23, 2020
THE BOYS of Dollard Packaging in Dublin will be breathing a sigh of relief after they dodged a hefty $4.5m pension deficit claim in... Read more »
FRANCESCA’S ‘ANNUS HORRIBILIS’
April 23, 2020
LIKE BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth, who gave her an OBE in 2017, Bank of Ireland (BoI) boss Francesca McDonagh will presumably recognise an annus horribilis... Read more »
RICH RICCI’S WIND DOWN
April 23, 2020
A COMPANY called Dedsert Ireland Ltd has just been voluntarily wound up by its owners. The company turns out to be behind the Irish-registered... Read more »
CATHERINE WILEY’S COPYRIGHT HEADACHE
April 9, 2020
LIKE MANY similar organisations that depend on donations to survive, the Catholic Grandparents Association Ltd (CGA) is facing a tough few months ahead. The... Read more »
RON WEISZ’S SEMI-RETIREMENT
April 9, 2020
THE CANNY old rancher, Leitrim-based American subprime lender Ron Weisz, might be semi-retired, but he’s still being kept busy by his high-interest money-lending business.... Read more »
TULLOW’S AFRICAN ‘PARENT’
April 9, 2020
AFRICAN BILLIONAIRE oilman Samuel Dossou-Aworet has pushed his stake in his Tullow Oil “baby” to more than 13%. Tullow’s share price has enjoyed a... Read more »
RICHARD MEEHAN’S MENU
April 9, 2020
A FEW short years ago, Richard Meehan was aiming to build his food distribution company to €30m by 2021. Unfortunately, his business took a... Read more »
JIM DURIE’S FITNESS CHALLENGE
April 9, 2020
At the same time that gyms have gone quiet during the lockdown, one of the bigger players in the game, the company behind the... Read more »
WHAT’S ALE-ING PAUL SMITHWICK?
March 26, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to spot that legal eagle Paul Smithwick OBE has resigned from the board of Sullivan Craft Brewery, the company behind Smithwick’s... Read more »
ENDA O’COINEEN’S DIRECTORS
March 26, 2020
WITH NEWSPAPER advertising shrivelling as businesses pull in their horns over the coronavirus, Enda O’Coineen’s team might be wishing that previous owner Conor Killeen... Read more »
WINDING UP TUSKAR PROPERTY
March 26, 2020
A LEGAL notice was published last week in relation to the winding up of a company called Tuskar Property Holdings Ltd. This name may... Read more »
BRODY SWEENEY’S SETBACK
March 26, 2020
BRODY SWEENEY has described in recent interviews how revenues at his popular Camile Thai restaurants have been walloped, forcing him to lay off staff... Read more »
MARTIN KEANE’S CONCERNS
March 26, 2020
MARTIN KEANE, the owner of such well-known Dublin venues as Oliver St John Gogarty and Blooms Hotel, struck a miserable-looking figure in his interview... Read more »
ALI RYAN STAYS CALM
March 26, 2020
GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE showbiz spotter, Alexandra ‘Ali’ Ryan, is a busy woman, between running her media business Goss and tending to her full-time social media... Read more »
SACCONE’S BILL
March 12, 2020
SOME BAD news for Margaret Saccone, mother of American-Irish mummy YouTube blogger Anna Saccone. Margaret, whose listed address is in Rochestown in Co Cork,... Read more »
