Brief Cases Archives

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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 »

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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 »

Frank McNamara and Theresa Lowe could celebrate after the ending of their prolonged wrangle with vulture fund Tanager. Former Custom House Capital boss Harry Cassidy (below) was arrested by German police and voluntarily returned to Ireland to face the fall-out from his company’s collapse.

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 »

DERMOT SMURFIT’S ‘NEXT STAGE’

October 22, 2020

IT’S BEEN a tough few months for the shareholders of GAN, Dermot Smurfit’s internet gambling company, and the Smurfits are busy putting on... Read more »

PALMARIANS’ PLANNING PROBLEM

October 22, 2020

There was mixed news in Lusk, Co Dublin, for His Holiness Pope Peter III – to the initiated, Markus Josef Odermatt – in... Read more »

VAN MORRISON’S SOUND FIGURES

October 22, 2020

DUMPY AND grumpy little songster Van Morrison is getting worse reviews than normal thanks to his protest songs against the Covid-19 lockdown. Goldhawk hasn’t... Read more »

ALISON CANAVAN’S DREAM BUILDING

October 8, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that California-based model-turned-new-age-guru Alison Canavan has pulled the plug on her Irish wellness coaching business, Tinky Tock Productions.... Read more »

BEATRICE TOLLMAN’S HOTEL BILL

October 8, 2020

WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the hospitality sector – and little reason for believing things will change any time soon – it... Read more »

IAN DRENNAN’S LATEST RESULT

October 8, 2020

THE LATEST company director to come a cropper courtesy of Ian Drennan’s Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) is one Shane... Read more »

MALCOLM DENMARK’S METHODS

October 8, 2020

EARLIER THIS summer, the doughty old Munster Express, the grand old lady of The Quay in Waterford, celebrated the tremendous milestone of 160... Read more »

KEATING’S PROBLEMS BUILDING

October 8, 2020

FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that established construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating construction has applied for the protection... Read more »

BLUE DIAMOND BOUNCES BACK

October 8, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS pleased to see the hard-working Boyle family at Dundalk Bureau de Change has bounced back from its little spot of difficulty... Read more »

BEN DUNNE’S PREMIER PROBLEMS

September 24, 2020

SPARE A thought for Ben Dunne, who hasn’t been able to open his gyms since March and has now lost a keenly fought... Read more »

ABDULAZIZ’S TRANSPARENCY

September 24, 2020

THE PHOENIX Thoroughbreds debacle rumbles on and, several weeks after dropping the bombshell that the big-spending racing operation was exiting British racing with... Read more »

PETER QUEALLY’S PANDEMIC

September 24, 2020

WITH the media’s focus firmly on the worsening pandemic situation in Dublin in recent weeks, meat plant owners were probably glad of a... Read more »

GREG O’NEILL’S UNQUIET LIFE

September 24, 2020

TWITTER ERUPTED at the revelations contained in the RTÉ documentary Unquiet Graves about British army murder gangs on both sides of the border.... Read more »

PAUL WILLIAMS ON THE HIGH SEAS

September 10, 2020

INTREPID CRIME fighter Paul Williams spent some time on the high seas with “the maritime drug busters”, publishing a breathless piece in the... Read more »

FRANKY WRIGHT’S RENT HOLIDAY

September 10, 2020

WITH IRISH tourism businesses having benefitted from the boom in stay-at-home holidays, Goldhawk presumes that Franky Wright’s Lilliput Adventure Centre on the banks... Read more »

BERNARD BROGAN’S PERFORMANCE

September 10, 2020

DUBLIN FOOTBALL ace Bernard Brogan is back in the newspapers thanks to his new autobiography, which was released this month. Cynics might carp... Read more »

KEATING’S LEGAL ISSUES

September 10, 2020

SURPRISING TO see that construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating construction on the wrong end of a judgment for €92,000. The high-profile company... Read more »

ZOE KELLY’S WEDDING WOES

September 10, 2020

ACCOUNTS for the impressive-sounding MBZ International caught Goldhawk’s eye recently, but the figures on the balance sheet were a good deal more modest... Read more »