CHAY BOWES AND THE ‘SHADOWY FORCES’
Hot Water Brigade
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ANNE HERATY’S KINGSPAN SHARES
February 11, 2021
GOLDHAWK UNDERSTANDS that when you’ve just sold your company for an eye-watering €318m, six-figure sums might seem particularly trifling – forgettable, even. But... Read more »
WINDING UP KEATING
February 11, 2021
FANS OF Goldhawk may not be too surprised to hear that Clare-headquartered construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating has ended up in liquidation.... Read more »
SEAN GANLEY CALLS TIME
February 11, 2021
SEAN GANLEY, brother of Rivada boss Declan, has called time on GSC International Business Development, an ambitious effort to provide paid advice to... Read more »
CONOR MCGREGOR’S LENDERS
January 28, 2021
CONOR MCGREGOR, who is battling a million-euro assault claim in the High Court, reportedly made more than €5m in his humbling defeat to... Read more »
ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’ CLAIM
January 28, 2021
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with a legal saga surrounding the liquidation of Star Elm Frames Ltd (SEF), which was the subject... Read more »
HRI HANDICAPPED
January 28, 2021
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see the Irish Examiner reporting that Horse Racing Ireland, (HRI) has claimed to the Public Accounts Committee that it... Read more »
TIKTOK TENANTS
January 28, 2021
ELSEWHERE in this issue Goldhawk takes a look at the TikTok players who set up the so-called The Go House before going offline... Read more »
CASTLE FREKE’S VIEWS
January 28, 2021
GOLDHAWK favourite millionaire Wall Street banker, Stephen Evans-Freke, has suffered a setback in his efforts to block the demolition of a former hotel... Read more »
GAVIN SHERIDAN’S HEDGE
January 14, 2021
ELON MUSK’S electric car company, Tesla, has been accelerating in value, reaching $800bn last week. One person who will be rubbing his hands... Read more »
MICHAEL MCLOUGHLIN’S SPORTING TACTICS
January 14, 2021
WHEN FREELANCE journalist Eithne Shortall began reporting on the diminishing returns of Irish sports autobiographies, a name at the very top of her... Read more »
PETER WILSON’S WEDGE
January 14, 2021
IT WAS a torrid 2020 for Eugene and Gene Murtagh’s Kingspan, and not merely because of Covid-19. It also got a good old... Read more »
APOLOGY – PRIME VALUE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (PVMC)
January 14, 2021
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ROUGH SEAS FOR ROGERS BROTHERS
December 16, 2020
COMPANIES HOUSE in the UK has just served a compulsory strike-off notice on City Splash Tours UK Ltd, one of the entities in... Read more »
TOM HIGGINS LOSES ALTITUDE
December 16, 2020
THE LONG wait for former Psychics Live phone-line operator Tom Higgins to blast into space looks set to continue for some time after... Read more »
LUKE COMER’S LONG SHOT
December 16, 2020
A FEW months ago, Luke Comer wrote his name into the history books when his horse, He Knows No Fear, became the longest-priced... Read more »
DERMO’S SQUAD DEPTH
December 16, 2020
IT’S BEEN a tough period for fans of Celtic FC lately, resulting in a brighter spotlight being shone on the Kaiser, Dermot Desmond,... Read more »
DEADLY DIARY
December 16, 2020
THIS IS the time of year when Goldhawk gets his claws on the Institute of Public Administration’s indispensable annual Directory, jammed full of... Read more »
CORMAC FARRELLY’S CONTRACTS
December 3, 2020
AN INTERESTING ruling last month saw Judge John O’Connor refuse to block a senior agricultural hack from moving to the Farmers Journal from... Read more »
KATHERINE SWEENEY’S TANGLES
December 3, 2020
WITH HAIR salons re-opening now that the country is out of Level 5, coiffeurs all over Ireland will be coining it in the... Read more »
WEBSITE WARNING
December 3, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a warning notice appear on the website of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) relating to a... Read more »
SARAH NEWMAN’S MASK
December 3, 2020
SARAH NEWMAN announced her return to commercial life in the Business Post last year in an emotional and candid interview. The interview outlined... Read more »
STOKES FAMILY PLANNING
December 3, 2020
IT HAS been an uphill battle for Pia and Jeff Stokes – formerly of the renowned Unicorn restaurant off Stephen’s Green – and... Read more »
ANNUAL 2020: HOT WATER BRIGADE 2020
November 19, 2020
THE MORE things change, the more they stay the same. This year may have seen economic carnage like nothing before, but there were... Read more »
JAMES MCILVENNA’S DOG DAY
November 19, 2020
THERE’S BEEN plenty of good press for ambitious dog treat inventor James McIlvenna lately, but he is facing a challenging year. Just last... Read more »
PAUL LANNEY’S APPEAL
November 19, 2020
These are difficult times for grocer Paul Lanney, who runs a SuperValu in his shopping centre in the county Louth town of Ardee.... Read more »
ALI RYAN’S GOSSIES
November 19, 2020
ALI RYAN, the boss of online gossip outlet Goss, announced last week that her much-talked-about annual awards show, the Gossies 2021, will indeed... Read more »
LAW SOCIETY ‘EXTRAVAGANCE’
November 5, 2020
WITH THE long-time director of the Law Society preparing to step down in March next year after 26 years in situ in Blackhall... Read more »
PAT BYRNE’S RUCKING
November 5, 2020
NICK WEBB, the Sunday Times business columnist, spotted something of a pattern amid all the gloom of Ireland’s depressing defeat in Paris last... Read more »
FAST EDDIE’S COURT DATE
November 5, 2020
SOUTH DUBLIN car dealer and high-profile rally enthusiast Eddie Peterson could be running out of track, with Wicklow County Council having initiated legal... Read more »
KIERAN GANNON’S LATEST SETBACK
November 5, 2020
MORE BAD news for Kieran Gannon, who has once again struck out on a planning application for his ambitious plans for the old... Read more »
DERMOT COX’S BARGAIN
November 5, 2020
WITH THE examinership of Vernon Foods wholesale fruit operation completed, it looks like the new controlling shareholder, retail king Dermot Cox, may have... Read more »
RICHARD SPENCE’S DIGITAL CLINIC
November 5, 2020
A COMPANY called Digex Ltd has surfaced with one Richard Spence as a director. He previously made his mark with Beutifi, the beauty... Read more »
CAULDERBANKS’ TIME EXTENSION
October 22, 2020
ONE OF Donegal’s biggest waste collectors, DM Waste (DMW), has benefited from a planning decision by Donegal County Council. The decision saved some... Read more »
DEIRDRE SOMERS’ NEW HAT
October 22, 2020
GOOD TO see Deirdre Somers keeping busy since she stepped down from the top job in the Irish Stock Exchange, but her appointment... Read more »
BYE BYE BUTLER’S
October 22, 2020
THE BUSINESS casualties of Covid-19 continue to pile up and it turns out even the backing of assorted Chinese millionaires won’t save the... Read more »