Article Category: Brief Cases

BEATING BARRY CONNELL

May 7, 2026

AS IS often the case ahead of big race meets, the name of fund manager-turned-trainer Barry Connell featured widely in the media in... Read more »

THIRD TIME UNLUCKY FOR JENNI TIMONY

May 7, 2026

FANS OF Goldhawk may not be shocked to hear that multi-talented Sligo entrepreneur Jenni Timony is winding up her FitPink athleisure brand, where... Read more »

JAY BRADLEY’S BOOZE

May 7, 2026

JAY BRADLEY, who once cribbed that he had “more haters than anyone else in Irish whiskey”, might be unenthusiastic about the amount of... Read more »

GENE MURTAGH’S NEW CRITIC

May 7, 2026

IRELAND’S MOST famous Tesla driver, Kingspan boss Gene Murtagh, will be wondering how much longer he is going to have to face enemy... Read more »

KELCY WARREN’S CASTLE?

April 23, 2026

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE Irish-based billionaire oil baron, Kelcy Warren – a major funder of Donald Trump and the Maga movement – has been (very)... Read more »

JOHN MCGUIRK’S LEGAL DRAMAS

April 23, 2026

THERE IS rarely a dull moment when John McGuirk is around and the right-wing firebrand and editor (suspended for now) of Gript has... Read more »

BRENNAN’S BREAD

April 23, 2026

THE BRENNAN family from Wexford continues to grow its US share portfolio. They have been trying for a number of years to gain... Read more »

AIRO’S GOOD GOING

April 23, 2026

THE ANNUAL report of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) has just been finalised and it comes at an opportune time, just... Read more »

DECLAN GANLEY’S LAWFARE WOES

April 9, 2026

LAST MONTH, colourful entrepreneur Declan Ganley took to X (he is rarely off the social media channel for too long) to rage against... Read more »

MARK BEARD’S BIG JOB

April 9, 2026

OVER AT the Business Post they have a habit of plugging their group’s own activities, so it was no surprise last weekend to... Read more »

TÁ ‘BLUEY’ AG TEACHT

April 9, 2026

RTÉ WAS delighted to announce last month that it is now showing ‘Bluey as Gailege’ on RTÉ Jr and RTÉ Player. The lengthy... Read more »

FASHION VICTIM PAUL KEELEY

April 9, 2026

PARENTS OF young children enrolled in part-time fashion design courses with a business call Project Fashion might have spit out their cornflakes when... Read more »

PHILIP FARRELLY’S BUSINESS CASE

March 26, 2026

WHILE THERE has, not surprisingly, been widespread coverage this week of the demolition of Chris and Rose Murray’s sprawling pile in Co Meath,... Read more »

KELCY WARREN V GREENPEACE

March 26, 2026

GOLDHAWK HOPES that recently arrived US oil billionaire Kelcy Warren is getting plenty of enjoyment out of his splendid home, distillery and airport... Read more »

MARCO HERBST’S DIFFICULT YEAR

March 26, 2026

IT’S BEEN a tough few months for millionaire Marco Herbst, the chief executive of Evercam, a company that provides CCTV cameras primarily for... Read more »

PATRICK DURKAN’S WINDING-UP

March 26, 2026

THERE HAS been plenty of media focus on the D/Res property group in recent weeks, notably on foot of it closing an impressive... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S LOBBYING

March 12, 2026

LAST MONTH the Irish Independent provided an exceedingly comprehensive answer to a question that nobody was asking: What are the former TDs of... Read more »

JAY BRADLEY’S FABERGÉ EGG

March 12, 2026

THERE WAS hardly a news outlet in Ireland or Britain last month that could resist the tale of the stolen Fabergé egg, nicked... Read more »

PADDY BYRNE’S LIQUIDATOR

March 12, 2026

COLOURFUL HOUSE builder Paddy Byrne is still up to his neck in controversy. He’s fighting with Kildare County Council over his approach to... Read more »

DISNEY WORLD DEATH CASE

March 12, 2026

There was some relief for Dublin businessmen Paul Nolan and John Cooke, who operate the Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant, located in... Read more »

GOODMAN JR’S SOLAR SALVO

February 26, 2026

GOOD TO see that Larry Goodman Jr, who has been taking over the reins at the gigantic beef business run by his father,... Read more »

EOIN MCGEE’S MOOLAH

February 26, 2026

THE PUBLIC’S favourite financial and budgeting adviser, Eoin McGee, has just published yet another book on financial planning, which has been the subject... Read more »

TOM LYONS’S ‘BUSINESS POST’ PREDICTIONS

February 26, 2026

LAST WEEK The Currency’s Tom Lyons got to break some exciting news about his former newspaper, the Business Post, when he wrote about... Read more »

ST PATRICK’S PROCEEDINGS

February 26, 2026

ÉILIS O’HANLON, the Sindo’s anti-woke agony aunt, got stuck into a bit of research about six months ago for one of her columns,... Read more »

ALBERT MANIFOLD’S RETIREMENT

February 12, 2026

HAS ALBERT Manifold finally found peace in his comfortable ‘retirement’? The former CRH boss, who trousered tens of millions of euros in pay... Read more »

RESCUING CIARAN FITZGERALD

February 12, 2026

GOLDHAWK SPIES the entry into the so-called Scarp rescue process for small companies of the loss-making entity that was behind the famous Blue... Read more »

JOANNE COSTELLO’S SUMMIT

February 12, 2026

ACCORDING TO Stubbs Gazette, a tiny judgment has just been registered against something called The Irish International Fashion & Food Summit Ltd (IIFFS),... Read more »

NICK LAWLOR’S NICE STRATEGY

February 12, 2026

DOCUMENTS JUST filed by a Dublin company called Employee Financial Wellness Ltd (EFW) show that just over €1m has been pumped into the... Read more »

ERIK ROBSON’S TAXING TIME

January 29, 2026

THE DREADED taxman has petitioned the High Court to wind up a company called Powerglade Ltd that has links to the popular and... Read more »

LOCHLANN QUINN’S JET BET

January 29, 2026

JUST BEFORE Christmas in the High Court a judgment was executed in favour of a company called Associated Energy Group LLC, which sued... Read more »

‘WHO IS SEAN O’DRISCOLL?’

January 29, 2026

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a blog by Cian Ginty, the editor of cycling website IrishCycle.com, that posed the provocative question: “Who is... Read more »