Article Category: Brief Cases

DAVID HALL’S BUSY SCHEDULE

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 is keeping David Hall busy. One of the self-promoter’s multitude of tweets last month proclaimed that extra services being provided by his... Read more »

JOHN V FARRELLY’S ADVENTURES

April 23, 2020

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal, John V Farrelly, a former Fine Gael politician and a shareholder in ‘free’ energy company Steorn, will be paying close... Read more »

FALLON BROTHERS DIG DEEP

April 23, 2020

THEJOURNAL.IE, that right-on source of news for young readers, has probably suffered more than most news outlets due to the Covid-19 restrictions and... Read more »

NOT IN KANSAS ANY MORE

April 23, 2020

THE BOYS of Dollard Packaging in Dublin will be breathing a sigh of relief after they dodged a hefty $4.5m pension deficit claim... Read more »

FRANCESCA’S ‘ANNUS HORRIBILIS’

April 23, 2020

LIKE BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth, who gave her an OBE in 2017, Bank of Ireland (BoI) boss Francesca McDonagh will presumably recognise an annus... Read more »

RICH RICCI’S WIND DOWN

April 23, 2020

A COMPANY called Dedsert Ireland Ltd has just been voluntarily wound up by its owners. The company turns out to be behind the... Read more »

CATHERINE WILEY’S COPYRIGHT HEADACHE

April 9, 2020

LIKE MANY similar organisations that depend on donations to survive, the Catholic Grandparents Association Ltd (CGA) is facing a tough few months ahead.... Read more »

RON WEISZ’S SEMI-RETIREMENT

April 9, 2020

THE CANNY old rancher, Leitrim-based American subprime lender Ron Weisz, might be semi-retired, but he’s still being kept busy by his high-interest money-lending... Read more »

TULLOW’S AFRICAN ‘PARENT’

April 9, 2020

AFRICAN BILLIONAIRE oilman Samuel Dossou-Aworet has pushed his stake in his Tullow Oil “baby” to more than 13%. Tullow’s share price has enjoyed... Read more »

JIM DURIE’S FITNESS CHALLENGE

April 9, 2020

At the same time that gyms have gone quiet during the lockdown, one of the bigger players in the game, the company behind... Read more »

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »