Article Category: The Hot Water Brigade

ARNE VIGELAND’S IRISH ANGLE

January 26, 2023
NEXT WEEK will see a creditors’ meeting held for a company called SJI Equities Ltd, which is owned by a Norwegian investor named Arne... Read more »

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KITE MEDICAL’S CRASH LANDING

January 26, 2023
WHAT AT one stage looked like one of Ireland’s more promising medtech start-ups, Kite Medical Ltd, is now to be wound up after failing... Read more »

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PAT O’FLYNN’S SUPPLEMENT BOOST

January 26, 2023
PAT O’FLYNN’S iron-absorption supplements company Solvotrin Therapeutics continues to attract the big bucks, with a business expansion scheme (BES) fund the latest to come... Read more »

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BOWLER HATS’ BARGAIN AT THE CURRAGH

January 26, 2023
WHILE THE state-backed Curragh racecourse has been haemorrhaging money – the 2021 accounts filed before Christmas show that Curragh Racecourse Ltd dropped €4m that... Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S BEDROOMS

January 12, 2023
WHILE MONEYBAGS John Magnier has tended to be seen as something of a deity in south Co Tipperary, where he has been splashing the... Read more »

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WILL PRENDERGAST’S PREDICTIONS

January 12, 2023
AFTER TWO years in situ as a director on Advisable.com, venture capitalist and member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows Will Prendergast has stepped... Read more »

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RICK EARLEY’S LATEST SETBACK

January 12, 2023
A LOW-PROFILE Co Longford company called Profill Ltd was wound up immediately before Christmas. Having started life as a mattress manufacturer in Tralee with... Read more »

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DESMOND BOUNCES BACK

January 12, 2023
ACCOUNTS HAVE just been filed by LN-Gaiety Holdings Ltd (LNGH), the joint venture between loaded concert promoter Denis Desmond and the Live Nation behemoth.... Read more »

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WINDHOIST HOISTED

January 12, 2023
THE WEEK before Christmas, a business involved in providing services to wind farms – Windhoist Ireland Ltd (WIL) – was wound up by the... Read more »

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LAURA WHITMORE’S MUFF MOVE

December 15, 2022
AN IRISH lass who has been making waves in London in recent weeks is TV presenter Laura Whitmore. Having fronted the insanely popular Love... Read more »

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LIKEWHERE’S LOADED PASSENGERS

December 15, 2022
A TRAVEL tech outfit called LikeWhere, founded by Simon Dempsey and Luke Middlewick, is set to officially crash-land next week. It turns out the... Read more »

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SIMONE ROCHA’S REWARDING GAZE

December 15, 2022
WHILE Laura Whitmore has been attracting headlines across the Irish Sea, another Irish player making an impact there is fashion designer Simone Rocha, who... Read more »

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BAH HUMBUG AT SUPERVALU

December 15, 2022
ESCADIA LTD, the company that was associated with a large SuperValu supermarket in Ardee Co Louth – controlled by Margaret Lanney and her son,... Read more »

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CLOCK STARTS ON FILM LEVY

December 15, 2022
WITH THE Seanad’s final passing of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022 on December 6, a revamp of the online and broadcast... Read more »

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BILL MCCABE’S LEGAL HEADACHE

December 1, 2022
INTERESTING TO see a midland engineering outfit called Aubren Ltd lodging proceedings in the Four Goldmines against the high-profile air purification outfit WellAir Ltd,... Read more »

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MARK GALLIGAN’S EMPTY HOUSE

December 1, 2022
THE SUMMER of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the House of Ireland (HoI) crafts and gifts retail group collapsed into liquidation. The... Read more »

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RESCUING CIARA DONLON

December 1, 2022
HAVING WON her fair share of plaudits in recent years, Ciara Donlon – the woman behind Theya Lingerie Ltd, which produces post-surgery underwear from... Read more »

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MICHAEL HACKMAN’S IRISH SCREENPLAY

December 1, 2022
INTERESTING TO see that the first accounts have been filed by Michael Hackman’s Ardmore and Troy Studios Limited, which acquired the two film and... Read more »

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ROBERT DRENNAN’S SOUL SEARCHING

November 17, 2022
SO FAREWELL then to Robert Drennan’s trendy sofa retailer Soul, which has been wound up after a decade in business. Happily, design conscious south... Read more »

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JENNY ROCK’S ADVICE

November 17, 2022
VIRTUALLY EVERY media outlet provides some kind of ‘your money’ or ‘how to save it’ advice these days, with some mid-tier entrepreneur or business... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: BRIEF CASES – BUSY YEAR FOR THE GATE KEEPERS IN 2022

November 17, 2022
IT WAS a hectic year for liquidators, bankruptcy lawyers, insolvency practitioners and anyone investigating white-collar crime, as the long-stored-up problems during the Covid-19 pandemic... Read more »

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AL PORTER’S TIMELY COMEBACK

November 15, 2022
AL PORTER made his “surprise comeback” last week, the Indo blared on its website. Showbiz editor Melanie Finn told expectant readers how “the funnyman... Read more »

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EVENT ARMY SUFFERS DEFEAT

November 2, 2022
THE DEFICIT at the online talent sourcing operation Event Army Ltd (EAL), which had traded as Mustard, could turn out to be pretty hefty... Read more »

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JOHN MOORE SPLASHES THE CASH

November 2, 2022
NOW BASED in sunny Lisbon in Portugal, self-described “rebel entrepreneur” and “concerned citizen” John Moore has been chucking his money around here, as evidenced... Read more »

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COLIN MCKINLAY’S ASBESTOS PROBLEM

November 2, 2022
IT’S BEEN a difficult few years for Center Parcs Ireland (CPI). No sooner had the group opened its expensive holiday village in Co Longford... Read more »

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GORDON ELLIOTT’S NEW WINNER

November 2, 2022
HIGH-PROFILE horseracing trainer Gordon Elliott has just filed some figures for his latest corporate entity. The Master of Cullentra remains the most likely jumps... Read more »

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NOONAN FAMILY CLEANS UP

November 2, 2022
A COMPANY with the rather boring name of NNF Services Ltd has just been wound up and it turns out there is quite a... Read more »

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MIKE WEBSTER’S ‘BRIGHT FUTURE’

October 19, 2022
THINGS CAN change pretty fast in the tourism business as Mike Webster, chief executive and founder of Killarney-headquartered hotel booking engine Arvoia, can surely... Read more »

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PAUL HOWARD’S PAIN

October 19, 2022
BETWEEN FORGETFUL politicians failing to declare rental income and the usual bleating before last month’s Budget 2023 about the ‘exodus’ of small, private landlords... Read more »

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CLAYTON LOVE’S HAT-TRICK

October 19, 2022
LAST WEEK’S liquidation of Piton Properties Ltd (PPL) represents the third strike for Cork merchant prince Clayton Love, Neill Love and Sarah Cronin. Earlier... Read more »

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FIONA MCHUGH’S DISAPPOINTING DISH

October 19, 2022
FORMER SUNDAY TIMES editor Fiona McHugh continues to have unhappy experiences with her own businesses, with the liquidation of a Rathmines restaurant and bar... Read more »

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ENDA WOODS’S ‘GLASS BOX’

October 19, 2022
GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by an increasingly costly planning dispute in leafy Killiney between private equity titan Enda Woods of Signature Capital and a... Read more »

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JOHN COLLISON’S PREDECESSORS

October 6, 2022
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by John Collison that millions of euro are to be lashed out upgrading the derelict Millbrook House next to his impressive Abbeyleix... Read more »

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ALVAN HUNT’S LATEST INVESTMENT

October 6, 2022
THERE’S BEEN plenty of, er, buzz around Hexafly lately, the Irish company that wants to turn insects into animal feed to provide a global... Read more »

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LEECH PAPERS FILED AWAY

October 6, 2022
A FORMER document disposal and paper recycling business called Leech Papers Ltd (LPL) has been placed in liquidation by the High Court, more than... Read more »

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IVAN WILDE’S NEW COURSE

October 6, 2022
CHOPPY WATERS recently for fishing boat skipper Ivan Wilde, who has battled complaints from some workers about pay and conditions, while also winding up... Read more »

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