Article Category: Brief Cases

RED INK AT PINK SANDS

May 29, 2019

THE REVENUE has registered a judgment against a company called Pink Sands Property Investments Ltd, which has form when it comes to this... Read more »

DENIS DESMOND’S INVESTMENTS

May 29, 2019

IN THIS issue, Goldhawk profiles promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond, who has quite a varied array of investments. While some are connected to MCD’s... Read more »

LISA DUFFY’S CREDITORS MEETINGS

May 16, 2019

GOLDHAWK NOTES that two companies in the Cari’s Closet retails fashion group are being wound up, with creditors’ meetings due to be held... Read more »

BERNIE MADOFF’S IRISH FEEDER FUND

May 16, 2019

OVER A decade after details emerged about the huge Ponzi scheme operated by US fraudster Bernie Madoff, a filing in the Companies Office... Read more »

JAMES KEARNEY’S ‘UNDUE INFLUENCE’

May 16, 2019

A JUDGMENT for €98,000 has just been registered by AIB against a small property vehicle, Rostaff Developments Ltd. This is the Galway construction... Read more »

SIMON KENNEDY’S ‘BATTLEGROUND’

May 16, 2019

THERE WAS more woe for colourful Wexford solicitor Simon Kennedy in the High Court recently concerning his scrap with a bank over an... Read more »

MYLES CROFTON’S BOOM-ERA BUDDY

May 16, 2019

DUBLIN developer Myles Crofton’s comeback is well and truly under way. The Irish Times reported this month that he has applied for permission... Read more »

TOP MARKS FOR RM

May 16, 2019

SPARE A thought for Michael and Brendan Kelly’s KPW Print operation in Ballinasloe, which has missed out on a contract with the State... Read more »

SEAN LYONS’S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO

May 2, 2019

IS THE apocalypse approaching for Sean Lyons’s troubled company, Doomsday Challenge Ltd? Yet again, the firm is listed to be struck off the... Read more »

PETER QUEALLY’S FOUL EMISSIONS

May 2, 2019

GOLDHAWK wasn’t too surprised to see Kildare-based food-processing giant Arrow group on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) latest ‘name and shame’ list. The... Read more »

MARTIN TUBRIDY’S TAX TROUBLES

May 2, 2019

THE REVENUE moved this week to wind up a company owned by one Martin Tubridy in Co Clare. The publican-cum-engineer has had a... Read more »

FAREWELL FIMAK

May 2, 2019

A COMPANY that found itself the subject of some media coverage last year over the operation of the student Leap Card system has... Read more »

DAVID SMYTH’S BLACKHALL BLUES

May 2, 2019

INTERESTING to see that the Law Society has just registered a judgment against Waterford tech outfit Agenda Computers Ltd, where the principal is... Read more »

PAT MCCAUGHEY’S SPICY MEATBALL

May 2, 2019

UNFORTUNATELY for businessman Pat McCaughey, former boss of Dublin-based spice burger maker Walsh Family Foods Ltd (WFF), the crash is still leaving a... Read more »

BLACK CARD FOR BOOZER PLANS

April 18, 2019

PLANS to redevelop a popular pub adjacent to Croke Park have hit the crossbar. Dublin City Council has requested that the Dublin Loft... Read more »

RUTH MORAM’S ‘ABUSE OF PROCESS’

April 18, 2019

ANOTHER chapter in the remarkable legal saga involving Ruth Moram and the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ireland was written in the Court of Appeal... Read more »

TAXING TIMES FOR MARTIN TUBRIDY

April 18, 2019

THE TAXMAN has finally lost his patience with Clare businessman Martin Tubridy. A petition to wind up his construction and civil engineering company,... Read more »

DISCIPLINING CIARÁN DESMOND

April 18, 2019

MORE on Ciarán Desmond, the legal eagle and financial adviser at the centre of a high-profile court case involving allegations of fraud and... Read more »

PETER GAYNOR’S BIG BUCKS

April 18, 2019

MORE GOOD news for restaurateur-turned-construction suit Peter Gaynor, who continues to make a mint in London, having seen his food business back in... Read more »

POOR FORM AT SARACENS

April 18, 2019

WITH MUNSTER heading to England to play Saracens in the European Rugby Cup semi-finals this weekend, it is interesting to see the kind... Read more »

O’SULLIVAN’S DAMAGED FLEET

April 4, 2019

SPARE A thought for Roger O’Sullivan and his scuppered hospitality, catering and tourism vehicle, Ignition, which is being wound up. The group was... Read more »

PEEL AVIATION’S CRASH LANDING

April 4, 2019

INTERESTING TO spot a High Court winding up petition last week in relation to a company called Peel Aviation Ltd. It has taken... Read more »

PHILIP DORAN’S LOAN

April 4, 2019

THE SUPREME Court has sent a near ten year legal dust-up back to the High Court. The dispute between plaintiff, Damien Stapleton, and... Read more »

JAY’S FIRE REGULATIONS

April 4, 2019

Goldhawk’s old friend Jay Bourke has been in the news again. His new bar, Penny Lane, didn’t open as planned last week after... Read more »

TAX BILL FOR CIVIL SERVANTS

April 4, 2019

SPARE a thought for Deirdre Costello and Catriona Kelly who were hit with judgments of €110,000 each by the dreaded taxman. The pair... Read more »

SAILING FOR LABARDIE FISHER

April 4, 2019

Goldhawk can reveal that the fishermen at the centre of a high profile defamation case have decided to pull in their nets and... Read more »

BACSTROKE’S BAD NEWS

March 21, 2019

SPARE a thought for the production company and, er, specialists in inflatable leisure Bacstroke Limited, which featured on the tax defaulters’ list, having... Read more »

RACHEL GRAHAM BOUNCES BACK

March 21, 2019

Rachel Graham and hubby Victor Graham’s Italian-themed Dundalk restaurant, Eno, had a liquidator appointed last month. Entrepreneur Rachel previously owned a specialist shoe... Read more »

TV PRODUCER FEELS THE PINCH

March 21, 2019

A busy Ranelagh-based television production firm, Good Company Productions Limited, starred in the latest tax defaulters’ list, having paid the Revenue some €219,000... Read more »

FINAL WORD ON ALAN HYNES?

March 21, 2019

A small legal notice published in the media last week by Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) marks the final chapter in the long-running Alan... Read more »

VITGESON’S MILLION EURO BONUS

March 21, 2019

THE receiver of a Nama-controlled property development company, Vitgeson Limited, offloaded a 59-acre site in Blackcastle, Co Meath, for a healthy €9.5m –... Read more »

RUTHIE H’S HARD TIMES

March 21, 2019

FANS of Goldhawk will remember nutrition entrepreneur Ruth Heatherington and her company, Miss Fit Enterprises Ltd, which has now been wound up. Heatherington... Read more »

JOAN LYNCH’S TAXING TIMES

March 21, 2019

ONE of the companies in the Born Clothing franchise, Born Clothing Ltd, has featured on the tax defaulters’ list, having paid the taxman... Read more »

THE KELLYS’ EXAM RESULTS

March 7, 2019

THERE WERE some interesting claims in the Four Goldmines last month in a case that could cost the taxpayer a few bob. Interestingly,... Read more »