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DORIAN’S GREY DAY

September 22, 2022
A CREDITORS’ meeting will be held next week to oversee the winding up of a Donnybrook, D4 restaurant/wine bar business that shut its doors... Read more »

BARRY O’CALLAGHAN’S HOSPITALITY

September 22, 2022
IT’S BEEN a busy few months in Waterford for tech moneybags Barry O’Callaghan, where he’s been ringing the changes at his swanky Cliff House... Read more »

KEATING’S CREDITORS

September 22, 2022
DOCUMENTS FILED by joint liquidators Kieran Wallace and Andrew O’Leary reveal that the hapless unsecured creditors were owed a whopping €18m when Clare construction/civil... Read more »

NIALL QUINN’S SHOPPING LIST

September 22, 2022
AS NOTED elsewhere (see p18), Ash Quinn, the daughter of former Irish international striker Niall Quinn, has moved on from her chief executive role... Read more »

GRAEME DE RENZY’S $16M HEADACHE

September 8, 2022
GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to learn that his old friend, Graeme de Renzy, is in another spot of bother, this time on foot of... Read more »

POWERSCOURT POWER PLAY

September 8, 2022
THE BATTLE of the super-rich landowners of Wicklow over staff quarters on the grounds of American billionaire John Malone’s Powerscourt Hotel has now escalated... Read more »

DUBLIN PARNELLS’ OWN GOAL

September 8, 2022
LOOKS LIKE the long-established Parnells GAA club in Coolock, D5, might have scored an own goal following a costly lawsuit. Certainly, someone took their... Read more »

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S WAR EFFORT

September 8, 2022
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p3) Goldhawk examines the awarding of contracts to accommodation providers, particularly hotel owners in relation to the arrival here... Read more »

FIONA MCHUGH’S CLOUDY OUTLOOK

August 25, 2022
HAVING ONLY recently found herself on the end of a tiny judgment from the Revenue for just €1,850 (presumably as a result of some... Read more »

John Burns Irish Newspaper Archives Problems

JOHN BURNS’S PAPER TRAIL

August 25, 2022
GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a curious media piece by John Burns of the Sunday Times last week, in which he wrote about how... Read more »

Dermot Desmond The Sporting Emporium Losses

DERMOT DESMOND’S LONG SHOT

August 25, 2022
DERMOT DESMOND must be happy that his casino business off Grafton Street, on St Anne’s Lane, is making a profit these days. But the... Read more »

MOVIEMAKERS’ PREDICTABLE PLOT

August 25, 2022
AN ASSESSMENT of the film and television luvvies’ favourite tax credit, Section 481, is currently under way at the Department of Finance, prior to... Read more »

HOZIER’S HITS

August 11, 2022
THE FOG-HORN voiced Hozier – formerly known as Andrew Hozier-Byrne, until he was championed and molded by music supremos Caroline Downey and Denis Desmond... Read more »

DOWN THE TOILET FOR LUCA MAMMI

August 11, 2022
THE PANDEMIC has claimed another victim with the upmarket bathroom business Profilo Smart, owned by Dublin 6-based Italian designer Luca Mammi, entering liquidation. Profilo... Read more »

ANNE DAVY BOUNCES BACK

August 11, 2022
IT’S BEEN a rocky few years for Anne Davy, the majority owner of the controversial Hyde and Seek childcare chain in Dublin. At least... Read more »

FLIPDISH V AMAZON

August 11, 2022
THERE HAS been much drooling by business hacks over the fundraising exploits of Conor and James McCarthy, the Dublin-based brothers behind Flipdish, an online... Read more »

NIALL HARBISON’S DOGGY TREAT

August 11, 2022
WHAT A surprise it was to see Goldhawk’s old pal, Niall Harbison, pop up in the Irish Times last month. Now living in Thailand,... Read more »

BARKHILL LOSES ITS BITE

July 28, 2022
IT LOOKS like we will be waving goodbye in the next couple of months to a property company called Barkhill Ltd, which helped develop... Read more »

ELISHA DOWLING’S HOMEWORK

July 28, 2022
TWO YEARS on from the sudden closing of the long-established Brookfield College grind school in Tralee, when blindsided parents were advised that a liquidation... Read more »

THE VEGAN MOODLEYS’ MENU

July 28, 2022
ALTHOUGH VEGANISM is understood to be growing in Ireland (as elsewhere), this did not prevent the collapse of a company set up to provide... Read more »

LOUIS RONAN’S DEADLY COMPETITION

July 28, 2022
GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal Louis Ronan senior will be breathing a sigh of relief after a rival crematorium to his Cork-based Island Crematorium was refused... Read more »

SENAN SEXTON’S DARK APARTMENT

July 14, 2022
A LARGE property on Elgin Road D4 in the heart of the embassy district is on the market with a hefty price tag. It... Read more »

ALAN CURRAN’S ‘SCOUTING TRIPS’

July 14, 2022
MUCH FANFARE was expended last week by the Jimmy Menton-chaired board of Providence Resources in announcing the appointment of Alan Curran as interim chief... Read more »

GREENCOAT RENEWABLES’ JAMMY CONTRACT

July 14, 2022
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that the Rónán Murphy-chaired board of the listed wind energy conglomerate Greencoat Renewables has been busy renewing the lucrative... Read more »

GERRY GANNON’S WINDFALL

July 14, 2022
IT LOOKS like yet another bumper payday is heading the way of developer and landowner extraordinaire Gerry Gannon, who has put the former Quickpark... Read more »

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 »

DUBLIN AIRPORT’S MARQUEE PLAYERS

June 30, 2022
WITH CHAOS still the order of the day for air passengers passing through Dublin Airport, at least someone is making a few bob out... 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 »