Article Category: The Hot Water Brigade

Derek O’Leary’s good day in court

February 9, 2017
CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal Foxrock developer Derek O’Leary who had a pretty decent day in the Court of Appeal recently. One of O’Leary’s... Read more »

Carlow beer barons brew up success

February 9, 2017
CONGRATULATIONS are in order for the beer barons at Carlow Craft Brewery Ltd, the company behind the increasingly popular O’Hara’s range of craft beers.... Read more »

Workplace Relations Commission ‘grinding to a halt’

January 25, 2017
ALL IS not well at the new Workplace Relations Commission, according to a number of legal practitioners including  Richard Grogan of Grogan & Associates Solicitors, a... Read more »

Legal eagle Madden’s tale of woe

January 25, 2017
GOLDHAWK’s old pal, former solicitor Paul Madden, is set for a stint in the slammer after he got three and a half years at... Read more »

More headaches for John Condon

January 25, 2017
SPARE a thought for unlucky solicitor John Condon who had High Court proceedings lodged against him last week by the dreaded taxman. Condon, who... Read more »

A rough start to 2017

January 25, 2017
GOLDHAWK spotted a couple of interesting names and companies that have popped up in Stubbs Gazette since the start of 2017. Meath choreographer and... Read more »

Rudi Butler Wins Big

January 12, 2017
Rudi Butler (Far Left) CONGRATULATIONS are in order to 29-year-old wunderkind developer Rudi Butler who just before Christmas was granted planning permission for his... Read more »

Tom McEnaney’s business partner

January 12, 2017
GOLDHAWK noticed that former journalist Tom McEnaney has applied to the High Court to strike his media consultancy firm off the companies register. McEnaney... Read more »

Wind farm directors up in the air

January 12, 2017
THERE was some good news last week when the Revenue announced a 46% surge in investments made through the government’s Employment Investment Incentive Scheme... Read more »

Maureen Curran’s bad day in court

January 12, 2017
Judge Mary Irvine (Above) SPARE a thought for 81-year-old Maureen Curran who had a rough day in the Four Goldmines in December when she... Read more »

Leo Sherlock’s legal woes

January 12, 2017
GOLDHAWK’S old pal Leo Sherlock just can’t catch a break. After months of being pilloried on social media by journalists who claimed that his... Read more »

Senator Paudie’s protests

January 12, 2017
IT WAS interesting to see Fine Gael senator Paudie Coffey proudly proclaim before Christmas that Fine Gael is not the party of the landlord.... Read more »

Winding up De Valera’s communications company

December 14, 2016
A CREDITORS meeting took place earlier this week to appoint a liquidator to M&C Communications Ltd, the long-suffering medical communications company owned by Irish... Read more »

George Beggan goes on the counter

December 14, 2016
THERE was an interesting judgment in the High Court last month relating to Meath developer and farmer George Beggan, against whom Danske Bank is... Read more »

Developer Monaghan falls foul of vulture fund

December 14, 2016
SPARE a thought for developers Barry Monaghan and Michael Doyle whose company Monaco Properties Ltd has just had a receiver appointed to it by... Read more »

Early Christmas present for tax defaulters

December 14, 2016
GOLDHAWK spotted a couple of interesting professionals on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters, some of who have had their share of headaches... Read more »

A Date for Your Diary

December 14, 2016
IT’S FAIR to say that Goldhawk’s investigations would be a lot more difficult if it wasn’t for the indispensible Institute of Public Administration (IPA)... Read more »

Millennium Park saga winds down

December 14, 2016
AN END is finally in sight for the long-running saga of the Naas Millennium Business Park, after the pair of companies at the centre... Read more »

Declan Ganley’s month to forget

December 1, 2016
DECLAN Ganley has had a bad month. In early November, his Rivada Networks technology company was knocked out of the tendering process to build... Read more »

Philip Smyth’s huge losses

December 1, 2016
SPARE a thought for Goldhawk’s old pal, Foxrock businessman Philip Smyth, whose hotel company Genport Ltd has had a rough time of it. Genport... Read more »

Paula Tiernan’s colourful father

December 1, 2016
CONGRATULATIONS are in order to solicitor Paula Tiernan who had a very positive result recently when the Supreme Court discharged a summary judgment for... Read more »

Hammond Lane’s heavy metal

November 3, 2016
HAMMOND Lane Metal Ltd (HLM), a Dublin-based subsidiary of metal recycling giant Clearway Disposals, filed its latest accounts last week which revealed a mixed... Read more »

Ready for strike-off

November 3, 2016
GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting company listed for striking off the register recently. Marc MacSharry Properties Ltd. Marc MacSharry Properties (MMP) is an auctioneers and... Read more »

Other strike-offs

November 3, 2016
SEPARATELY, Osberstown Developments Ltd – the property company through which the Millennium Park business complex was bought for over €310m by Nama developers Gerry... Read more »