Article Category: Brief Cases

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

HYNES DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

January 30, 2020

THE INEVITABLE has arrived for embattled jewellery merchant Frank Hynes (see The Phoenix, 13/12/19). His business, Hynes Jewellers (Wexford) Ltd, was wound up... Read more »