Article Category: Brief Cases

AL THANI’S THOROUGHBREDS

August 21, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk reports on the hefty losses incurred by the Al Thani family’s Qatar Racing Ltd (QRL) business... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S RADIO INTERFERENCE

August 7, 2025

IN RECENT weeks billionaire Denis O’Brien has been shouting his mouth off about the likes of Ian Drennan (boss of the Corporate Enforcement... Read more »

PROFESSOR GREEN’S GIGS

August 7, 2025

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED some corporate activity by PR operator Justin Green, who will be familiar to fans of The Phoenix for his militant approach... Read more »

PAT MCDONAGH’S BAD NEWS

August 7, 2025

IT’S NOT too often that Pat ‘Supermacs’ McDonagh reports losses of €½m but one of his multitude of investment companies, Cave Projects Ltd... Read more »

EOIN KEENAN’S WELLNESS BOXES

July 24, 2025

LONDON-BASED Trinity College graduate Eoin Keenan must have been delighted with the extensive coverage generated earlier this month for Goodrays, the cannabidiol brand... Read more »

RYAN MURPHY’S CHOPPY WATERS

July 24, 2025

JUST A month after the Murphy family featured prominently in RTÉ’s well regarded four-part documentary series on the lives of fishermen and women... Read more »

DISNEY’S DEFENCE

July 24, 2025

A MEMO of entry of appearance has now been lodged in Four Goldmines by the defendants in the legal action initiated by former... Read more »

BACKING CILLIAN MURPHY AND KNEECAP

July 24, 2025

MAYBE A slow news day, but there was plenty of coverage of the publication of the annual report for Ciarán Kissane’s Irish Film... Read more »

ALAN CLANCY’S HOSPITALITY HEADACHES

July 10, 2025

WHAT ON Earth is going on with Alan ‘House’ Clancy’s sprawling bar and club empire? Having attracted the attention of the dreaded taxman... Read more »

BEER FACTORY FLOORED

July 10, 2025

THE MOVE by the Revenue Commissioners to wind up Dublin Beer Factory Holdings Ltd (DBF) represents another setback for the backers here, including... Read more »

GEZIM IDRIZI’S FOOD FIGHT

July 10, 2025

THE REVENUE Commissioners are heading to the High Court later this month to wind up two food companies that turn out to be... Read more »

TENI’S BIG BACKERS

June 26, 2025

THE CONTROVERSIAL Transgender Equality Network Ireland (Teni) last week found itself in the sights of conservative media organs such as Gript and the... Read more »

THE OTHER MULTIMILLION-EURO ‘VERBAL CONTRACT’

June 26, 2025

THE HIGHLY entertaining contest in the Four Goldmines between John Magnier and Richard Thomson-Moore over the disputed €15m sale of the 750-acre Barne... Read more »

ROSS O’DWYER’S IMPRESSIVE SQUAD

June 26, 2025

GOLDHAWK NOTES a recent order in the High Court striking out a petition from the dreaded taxman to wind up a company called... Read more »

ALAN CLANCY’S TAXING MATTER

June 12, 2025

ONE OF the most high-profile players in the club and bar scene in Ireland, and especially Dublin, in recent years has been Alan... Read more »

WOLFPACK STUBBED OUT

June 12, 2025

WITH VAPING very much on the rise here and around the world, Goldhawk was interested to see that a company called Wolfpack Wholesale... Read more »

TV PRODUCERS’ UNSCRIPTED CREDIT

June 12, 2025

LAST WEEK the EU’s competition directorate approved the plan announced in Budget 2025 by then finance minister Jack Chambers to introduce a new... Read more »

BRANIGAN’S UNCOMFORTABLE SEATS

June 12, 2025

WITH THE deadline of June 16 for phase-one submissions to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, high-flying radio boss Kevin Branigan will be... Read more »

GARY MULLAN’S BAD VIBE

May 29, 2025

GOLDHAWK SPIES that the company behind the lauded Prosperity recruitment firm is being liquidated this week. The good news is that it looks... Read more »

DEREK MADDEN’S PRIME PROBLEM

May 29, 2025

FANS OF Goldhawk with long memories will recall an interesting little bioenergy company called Prime Energy Power Ltd (PEP), where Nicholas O’Dwyer of... Read more »

BIG NOISE MATT GLEESON

May 29, 2025

A COMPANY called Blackberry Hearing Ltd has just had a charge registered against it by non-bank lender InvoiceFair Ltd, which now trades as... Read more »

‘IMAGE’ MAKEOVER

May 29, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue, Goldhawk notes the agreement between Image Publications Ltd (IPL) and the Revenue in relation to repayment of warehoused pandemic-period... Read more »

CHOPHOUSE CHOPPED

May 15, 2025

EIGHT MONTHS after Kevin and Jillian Arundel (née Mulcahy) pulled down the shutters on their high-profile gastropub in Ballsbridge, The Chophouse, they have... Read more »

BRIAN MOONEY’S GOLF SWING

May 15, 2025

THIS MONTH is the deadline for creditors to submit any claims concerning an interesting company called Golphysics Ltd, which was set up by... Read more »

BRONAGH CONLON’S HANGOVER

May 15, 2025

THE DREADED taxman has registered a judgment in the High Court for €124,000 against Bronagh Conlon’s Listoke Distillery operation in Co Louth, which... Read more »

BERNIE’S BAD NEWS

May 15, 2025

SINCE GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 9/1/25) that a number of companies established by boom-time builder Bernard McNamara were to be wound up,... Read more »

DES MCGAHAN’S DES RES

May 1, 2025

A YEAR on from Goldhawk’s last look at the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale – where one Michael Jackson previously enjoyed a sojourn... Read more »

ALKEN BROTHERS‘ WHINE LIST

May 1, 2025

THE HAPLESS wine-importing Alken brothers, Anthony and Greg, found one of their companies on the wrong end of a winding-up petition from the... Read more »

FASHION VICTIMS

May 1, 2025

LOUTH BROTHERS John and Michael McKeown have come to the end of the road with their trendy men’s fashion business after their big... Read more »

CIARA DONLON’S EXIT

May 1, 2025

THEYA LINGERIE, which produced post-surgery underwear from bamboo no less, has now been dissolved but the name lives on in the form of... Read more »

BUTLERS CHOCOLATES PR TREAT

April 17, 2025

CONGRATULATIONS TO Butlers Chocolates, which got a valuable plug in the Indo last week in the run-up to Easter. Goldhawk is happy to... Read more »