Article Category: The Hot Water Brigade

Koger over and out

January 11, 2018
THE FINAL chapter in the winding up of software company Koger (Dublin) Ltd has now been written with the High Court greenlighting the discharge... Read more »

Mary Donnelly’s fraudulent payments

January 11, 2018
A 71-YEAR-OLD former company director in Limerick pleaded guilty recently to generating false invoices after an investigation by the Office of the Director of... Read more »

Tax ‘Alignment’

January 11, 2018
A DUNDALK soft drink wholesaler has been slapped with a €1.4m tax judgment for his part in a VAT fraud scheme. Michael Martin had... Read more »

A date for your diary

December 14, 2017
GOLDHAWK looks forward to this time of year, when the Institute of Public Administration’s Ireland – A Directory hits the desk, jammed full of... Read more »

Philip Smyth’s hotel bill

December 14, 2017
THE operating company behind the Hampton Court Hotel in Donnybrook filed a scary set of accounts for 2016 recently. Genport Ltd, owned by Goldhawk’s... Read more »

John Lally’s annus horribilis

December 14, 2017
GALWAY developer John Lally has had a tough time of it in 2017 after being slapped with an eye-watering High Court judgment earlier this... Read more »

Eugene McCool’s courtroom blues

December 14, 2017
GOLDHAWK’s old pal Eugene McCool had a November to forget in the Four Goldmines. Not only was the Dublin businessman hit with a €¼m... Read more »

Christmas humbug for tax defaulters

December 14, 2017
SOME interesting names and companies popped up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters, including Wexford businessman Sean Doyle. Well-known Kilmuckridge publican and... Read more »

Michael Flynn stops cleaning up

December 14, 2017
BAD news for Waterford-based environmental services operation FLI International Ltd, which has moved to wind itself up in the High Court after running out... Read more »

Gerry Barrett’s Marathon pals

December 14, 2017
TOUGH times for Galway businessman Gerry Barrett who looks set to lose control of more assets in his dwindling portfolio. Meanwhile, members of Barrett’s... Read more »

Leo Fitzgerald beats back the vultures

November 30, 2017
CONGRATULATIONS to Dublin publican Leo Fitzgerald, brother of moneybags pub mogul Louis Fitzgerald, who had a pretty decent result in the Four Goldmines recently.... Read more »

Manley Construction’s medical trouble

November 30, 2017
INTERESTING to see Meath construction outfit Manley Construction Ltd (MCL) has been served a notice of termination by the HSE on the site of... Read more »

Paddy Byrne’s planning problems

November 30, 2017
THERE’S NO questioning the ambition of builders Paddy Byrne and Danny Whelan of Victoria Homes. But, as a quick scan through planning documents shows,... Read more »

Gobbledygook

November 30, 2017
A new economic plan for Ireland – David McWaffle, Irish Times Unlike hosting the Rugby World Cup, the global economy is no longer an... Read more »

Taxman Cometh

November 30, 2017
A FEW interesting names popped up recently after having judgments registered against them by the taxman, among them Clontarf events promoter Donal Bolger. The... Read more »

Hotel hangover for the Creaven brothers

November 2, 2017
HARD luck to Galway hoteliers John and Joseph Creaven who were landed with matching tax judgments for €100,000 last month. The pair owned the... Read more »

Paul Stenson’s mixed results

November 2, 2017
THE company behind thin-skinned social media personality Paul Stenson’s Charleville Lodge hotel in Dublin 7 has just filed a revealing set of accounts. Stenson... Read more »

Ian Lucey’s latest row

November 2, 2017
INTERESTING to see that Blackrock businessman Ian Lucey’s Lucey Technology Ltd has been hit with another judgment by a creditor. Lucey Technology is the... Read more »

Hammond Lane’s metal fatigue

November 2, 2017
HAMMOND Lane Metal Company Ltd (HLM), the Dublin-based subsidiary of metal-recycling operation Clearway Disposal, is having its mettle tested. The company filed its annual... Read more »

Bryan Wixted’s medical problem

November 2, 2017
SPARE a thought for Bryan Wixted whose DMC Medical Ltd is facing a winding up petition in the High Court courtesy of a creditor,... Read more »

Jay Bourke’s latest judgment

November 2, 2017
HARD luck to Goldhawk’s old pal Jay Bourke who has just had a hefty judgment registered against him by the taxman. It comes hot... Read more »

Niall Harbison’s Manchester moves

November 2, 2017
CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal Niall Harbison whose Lovin media group is continuing its social media expansion. Harbo’s lifestyle outfit is in the process... Read more »

Brian Cunningham’s latest scrap

October 19, 2017
GOLDHAWK’s old pal Brian Cunningham popped up again last month after yet another bad day in the Four Goldmines. The distinctive Galway developer lost... Read more »

Ian Mallon’s business interests

October 19, 2017
GOLDHAWK recently spotted an interesting decision in the High Court relating to solicitor Ian Mallon, the principal at Ian Mallon & Co Solicitors, which... Read more »

Ian Gallagher’s tax troubles

October 19, 2017
SPARE a thought for the shareholders at Dimension Media IT Ltd, which is facing down the barrel of a winding-up petition in the High... Read more »

Shane Ormsby’s business partner

October 19, 2017
IT WAS reported last weekend that IBAT, one of the largest private colleges in the state, has been slapped on the wrist by a... Read more »

Nicholas O’Connor’s disciplinary matters

October 19, 2017
SPARE a thought for Wexford number cruncher Nicholas O’Connor who has (yet again) fallen foul of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Body (CARB), the disciplinary... Read more »

More upheaval at Maximum Media

October 19, 2017
WHAT is going on at Maximum Media, the company behind JOE.ie and HER.ie, where chief executive Katie Molony has just announced her resignation? Regular... Read more »

End of Term

October 19, 2017
WHILE ASSORTED educational establishments around the country have been closed this week as a result of ex-Hurricane Ophelia, one operation that will be keeping... Read more »