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TOM HIGGINS GETS READY TO BLAST OFF

June 1, 2023
COULD MINTED Tom ‘Psychics Live’ Higgins be about to finally blast off for space, 18 years after he stumped up the equivalent of $¼m... Read more »

MORE MILLIONS FOR MOVIES

June 1, 2023
ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin is currently seeking applications from “suitably qualified candidates” for two vacancies on the board of the state film funding agency,... Read more »

FERGAL NAUGHTON’S SALES

June 1, 2023
GLEN DIMPLEX heir Fergal Naughton and his missus, Rachael, are selling up their Georgian mansion in Howth, Drumleck House – with a cool €8.75m... Read more »

PIOTR SKOCZYLAS’S SOLICITORS

June 1, 2023
MALTA-BASED Piotr Skoczylas, the man behind Scotchstone Capital, continues to battle on bravely in his decade-long campaign to secure compensation for the government’s nationalisation... Read more »

RITA CROSBIE’S BATTLES

May 18, 2023
GOOD NEWS for Rita Crosbie (Harry’s missus), with Dublin City Council having given the thumbs up for two retail kiosks on Grand Canal Square,... Read more »

RIO BRAVO

May 18, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the coverage in the Business Post earlier this month of Paddy Cosgrave’s latest Web Summit (WS) shindig – in Rio... Read more »

SIOBHÁN TIGHE’S LEISURELY LIQUIDATION

May 18, 2023
A COMPANY called Coral Leisure Askeaton Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation, which must have come as something of a surprise to followers of... Read more »

PLOT TWIST FOR FILM PRODUCERS

May 18, 2023
IRELAND’S ASSORTED movie moguls, still high on this year’s awards season, will have plenty to chew over after reading the Oireachtas budgetary oversight committee’s... Read more »

God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

O’KANE FAMILY’S FORESTS

May 18, 2023
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18), Goldhawk takes a look at the sale price changes associated with a valuable Foxrock house owned by the... Read more »

LISA MCGOWAN’S BIG PLANS

May 4, 2023
LISA McGOWAN, the fashion blogger and influencer, betrayed a touch of frustration in her interview with the Sindo’s gossip queen, Niamh Horan, last weekend.... Read more »

OOKS A DAISY!

May 3, 2023
THE ODDLY named Zulleon Ltd has gone into liquidation, despite a share register choc-a-bloc with KPMG heavy hitters, some of who recently scooped millions... Read more »

TAXING TIMES IN WEXFORD

May 3, 2023
THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment for €237,000 against a company called Wexpack International Trading Company Ltd, which doesn’t appear to have... Read more »

DUBLIN’S DISASTER MOVIE

May 3, 2023
A COMPANY with the unwieldy name of Finance For An Italian Library Of Movies plc (Film) has been placed in receivership, almost 25 years... Read more »

AVVIO’S AI BONUS

April 20, 2023
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is generating quite the buzz at the moment but an Irish hotel booking software company, Avvio, that has been working away... Read more »

FILM PRODUCERS’ PROFITABLE PLOT

April 19, 2023
THE LOBBY organisation for film and television producers, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), has just delivered a nice plot in its latest accounts, covering the... Read more »

MICHELLE HETHERINGTON’S CURATED COLLAPSE

April 19, 2023
A COMPANY called Curated Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This entity turns out to be linked to high-profile design company David James Interiors... Read more »

CLADDAGH’S BIDEN BOOST

April 19, 2023
THE SINDO was rapturous in its reporting that Sleepy Joe Biden was gifted a vinyl copy of Almost Everything – a spoken-word album of... Read more »

MARISSA CARTER’S GLOW-UP

April 6, 2023
IT HAS been a busy few months for Marissa Carter, who was chosen as Newstalk’s Eversheds Sutherland-sponsored ‘Business Person of the Month’ for March.... Read more »

MICHAEL WOODLOCK’S WOES

April 6, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see his old pal, Michael Woodlock (whose brother-in-law was former Fianna Fáil North Tipp TD Michael O’Kennedy), generating headlines last... Read more »

GOD’S FEATURES

April 6, 2023
FOLLOWING THE Oscars hype in Ireland, man of the moment Paul Mescal pops up on screen again with God’s Creatures (see review p22), the... Read more »

GALLAGHER’S INTERNATIONAL FLAVOUR

April 6, 2023
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk examines the story behind a remarkable property on the Clare coast on the market with a near... Read more »

BARRY NAPIER’S SATISFACTION

March 23, 2023
CONGRATULATIONS Are in order for telecoms entrepreneur Barry Napier of Cubic Telecom fame, who has just satisfied a whopping €1m judgment from AIB. As... Read more »

CHEF ADRIAN’S CULINARY FLOPS

March 23, 2023
HE HAS been touted as a “hot young chef” for several years but is the ambitious and television-friendly Adrian Martin displaying a penchant for... Read more »

SISTERS’ MANSION HOUSE SUMMIT

March 23, 2023
THIS WEEK a conference called the National Menopause Summit kicks off at the Round Room in Dublin’s Mansion House, fronted by Davina McCall no... Read more »

ANNE HERATY’S HEIRLOOM

March 23, 2023
GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE jeweller Chupi Sweetman is profiled in this issue (see p17), having raised a fair whack of moolah for her eponymous brand. It... Read more »

JEREMY HUNT’S FILM PLOT

March 22, 2023
ONE-TIME arts minister John O’Donoghue likened film production incentives to a “Dutch auction”, whereby governments compete to give away the most money to film... Read more »

BRIAN ORMOND’S MISSTEP

March 8, 2023
BARELY A year after benefiting from oodles of free advertising in the Irish media, courtesy of gushing articles about Brian Ormond’s move into the... Read more »

PHARMACISTS’ FINANCIAL HEADACHE

March 8, 2023
IN RECENT weeks Dermot Twomey’s Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has been getting its fair share of attention, most notably as a result of the... Read more »

DUNCAN STEWART’S MANY HATS

March 8, 2023
WITH THE critically acclaimed Eco Eye television series jettisoned by RTÉ (see The Phoenix 24/2/23), it may not be too long before presenter and... Read more »

CERREJÓN’S IRISH MINING COMPANY CALLS IT A DAY

March 8, 2023
THE IRISH-registered company that has been the sole marketer of coal from the controversial giant Cerrejón mine on the Colombia-Venezuela border has just been... Read more »

HUGH CAHILL’S OWN GOALS

February 22, 2023
IT HAS been an unfortunate start to the year for RTÉ sports broadcaster Hugh Cahill, whose company has just gone into liquidation. On top... Read more »

NIAMH PARKER’S TWEETS

February 22, 2023
THE STORY of Altada’s travails keeps on giving and last weekend the Business Post featured a large spread detailing multiple criticisms of founder director... Read more »

PETER MCDONNELL’S ‘EXCLUSION’

February 22, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a legal action filed in the High Court last week by Donegal accountant Peter McDonnell against the Association of... Read more »

NEIL FRANCIS’S WINNING PERFORMANCE

February 22, 2023
WHILE FORMER Ireland rugby international Neil Francis must still be red-faced after last month’s Sunday Times front-page apology over his ‘story’ on a former... Read more »

EUGENE MURTAGH’S PROPERTIES

February 22, 2023
“KINGSPAN BILLIONAIRE Eugene Murtagh is deploying more of his family’s fortune in Dublin 2,” the Sunday Times reported last week. Murtagh has, of course,... Read more »

HUGH WALLACE’S PERSONAL GUARANTEE

February 9, 2023
WITH THE popular Home of the Year programme back on RTÉ from Valentine’s Day for its ninth series, there was plenty of love on... Read more »