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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

CORCORAN’S TAX RETURNS

March 12, 2020
MORE ON Cork solicitor Ger Corcoran, who has been fined €3,750 by the Revenue for failing to submit income tax returns on time, according... Read more »

GIBNEY’S GUARDEX LOANS

March 12, 2020
IT IS interesting to see that Eamonn Gibney, a former Army ranger and founder of the Kildare security firm GuardEx Limited, has taken out... Read more »

STOKES IS NOT STOKED

March 12, 2020
THE WICKLOW bar and gastropub belonging to serial entrepreneur Brian Stokes, Dante Catering Ltd (trading as Ashford House), has had Declan Taite of Duff... Read more »

GERRY COSGRAVE’S JUDGMENT

March 12, 2020
KBC BANK Ireland has registered a judgment against Donnybrook developer Gerry Cosgrave for an eye-watering €2.3m. Cosgrave, the cousin of well-known Dublin property developers... Read more »

TAXMAN BITES BACK

March 12, 2020
IT SEEMS as if two popular Dublin eateries have had a bite taken out of their finances, according to the Revenue’s list of tax... Read more »

CALLAN AND HIS CHARGES

March 12, 2020
NORTH COUNTY Dublin businessman Joe Callan was hit was a €100,000 judgment from the taxman this week, although he has already moved to pay... Read more »

ROOF COLLAPSE FOR CUSACK HOMES

March 12, 2020
THERE’S MORE bad news for the Cusack group, the troubled Meath property and hotel development group led by the Cusack family. Cusack Homes Ltd... Read more »

GREEN FARM GOOSE IS COOKED

March 12, 2020
GOLDHAWK IS intrigued by the latest developments at Green Farm Foods Limited (GFF), which was stung by the taxman for almost €500,000 for under-declaring... Read more »

ANY PORTER IN A STORM

February 27, 2020
TROUBLE IS brewing for Seamus Porter and his home building business Seamus Porter Siteworks Ltd (SPS). Vulture fund Cerberus has appointed Mazars’ Tom O’Brien... Read more »

SIMON PARLE’S SHED

February 27, 2020
WEXFORD PROPERTY developer Simon Parle, of Foulksmills in Co Wexford, has moved into a promising new area of real estate – converting sheds into... Read more »

DUBLIN AIRPORT TURBULENCE

February 27, 2020
ER Travel Limited (known as Easirent.com), a car rental firm that has been locked in a High Court spat with Dublin Airport Authority (DAA)... Read more »

COYLE’S BAD JUDGMENT

February 27, 2020
EMBATTLED BUSINESSMAN Paul Coyle has refused to relent in his efforts to halt the liquidation of his company, Decobake Ltd. The cake decoration business,... Read more »

RONAN SULLIVAN’S ROTTEN SPOILS

February 27, 2020
THE HIGH COURT has appointed Joe Walsh as examiner to Vernon Stores Ltd (trading as Vernon Catering), the long-established Dublin family fruit-and-veg business headed... Read more »

BONOBO’S NO-GO SMOKING ZONE

February 27, 2020
THE OWNERS of hipster haunt Bonobo in Smithfield, D7 – Shane Clifford, Hugh O’Farrell and Declan Murphy – have been hit with a setback... Read more »

RAVI’S HOT DISH

February 27, 2020
THE HEAT is being turned up at D4 Indian restaurant Ravi’s Kitchen. A meeting of creditors is to be held this week for Vanshav... Read more »

PHILIP MCGLADE’S LASER LAMENTS

February 27, 2020
THE ADVERTISING Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a number of complaints made about advertisements from two different businesses owned by Dublin businessman... Read more »

MIZOW’S D2 MISHAP

February 27, 2020
WHAT NOW for Aussie-born, Dublin-based developer Paul Mizow, who will no longer be able to lease his D2 townhouses on William McGlade’s short-term letting... Read more »

MCKILLEN’S ISLE OF MAN FUSION

February 13, 2020
IT IS interesting to see that 73 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, a protected structure purchased by developer and hospitality tycoon Patrick McKillen Jnr,... Read more »

DROPPED STITCH FOR JIM WALLACE

February 13, 2020
GOLDHAWK spotted a petition by Revenue to wind up Wexford textile firm JW Fashions Ltd, which listed local tailor Jim Wallace (cousin of Wexford-born... Read more »

FEELEY’S HARD FEELINGS

February 13, 2020
Accountant John Feeley, the recently appointed CEO of troubled company Maximum Media (MM), has a lot on his plate. Morale among the ranks is... Read more »

FASTNET SLOWS DOWN

February 13, 2020
CORK-BASED Fastnet Mussels Ltd, which lists John Murphy and Shane Murphy as its directors, was once considered one of the largest shellfish producers and... Read more »

TAX CASES NOT THEIR FORTE

February 13, 2020
More tax trouble for Wexford café owner Annino Forte. A judgment for no less than €2.7m was registered against him by the Revenue last... Read more »

PAT CREAN’S PLAN

February 13, 2020
Fresh-faced developer Pat Crean has lobbed in a planning application for the demolition of properties at Dublin’s Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. The south docks... Read more »

ADIOS TO RIOS

February 13, 2020
RIOS PROPERTIES (Cork) Limited, a company that lists Cork-based Denis O’Sullivan and James Rigby as directors, fell into liquidation last month, with accountant Finbarr... Read more »

IN THE SWAMP

February 13, 2020
Ireland’s fashionistas were no doubt devastated last month at the revelation that indigenous clothing brand Swamp, owned by husband-and-wife team Kieran Coogan and Donna... Read more »

CALLING UP CUSACKS’ DEBTS

February 13, 2020
THE LIQUIDATION of Navco Ltd, the company behind Navan’s Newgrange Hotel in Co Meath, is gathering pace. PWC liquidator Michael O’Regan, who was appointed... Read more »

HUGH GETS HOT AND BOTHERED

February 13, 2020
JOE.ie reporter Carl Kinsella got more than he bargained for when he took at pop at the Twitter habits of certain Irish journalists. Using... Read more »

IMAGE MEDIA’S IMAGE PROBLEM

January 30, 2020
A BAD HAIR day for Image Publications CEO Clodagh Edwards, whose Irish female-fronted glossy monthly Image magazine came under fire online earlier this month... Read more »

DOMINO’S DOUGH KNOTS IN A TWIST

January 30, 2020
THE TAXMAN placed a tall order with Domino’s this month. It successfully quashed an appeal by the pizza chain’s Irish franchisee, Karshan (Midlands) Ltd,... Read more »