Article Category: Brief Cases

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... 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... 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.... 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... 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.... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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?... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

Peter Conlon’s dynamic problem

October 5, 2017

BAD NEWS for former ‘Rich List’ regular Peter Conlon, who has reinvented himself as a charity technology guru courtesy of his Ammado platform,... Read more »

Oliver Connolly’s Russian connection

October 5, 2017

SO FAREWELL then to the Russia Irish Cultural Foundation (RICF), a strange outfit incorporated to “promote cultural awareness and the advance of cultural... Read more »

How €2,000,000 was wasted on 23 Wolfe Tone St

October 5, 2017

THE PUBLICATION of the 2016 annual report of Seamus McCarthy, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG), featured a number of long-running cases, with... Read more »

Mark Monks’ “audacious” behaviour

October 5, 2017

THE HIGH Court has just issued a ruling on proceedings taken by Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) against one Mark Monks, which effectively brings... Read more »

Lindsey Holmes’s blind date

October 5, 2017

SURPRISING perhaps that the assorted showbiz hacks have not reported on the PR boo-boo associated with TV3’s much anticipated new show, Blind Date,... Read more »

Brendan Burgess’s Hibernia pals

September 21, 2017

PERSONAL finance expert Brendan Burgess was back on television screens last week when he appeared on Pat Kenny’s TV3 panel show. Burgess discussed... Read more »

Galway Indo stops the presses

September 21, 2017

A DREADFUL year for local newspapers continued this month with the sudden closure of the Galway Independent, one title in Declan Dooley and... Read more »

Des Foley’s tax trouble

September 21, 2017

SPARE a thought for Leitrim publican and developer Des Foley who has found himself on the latest list of tax defaulters. Foley reached... Read more »

J’accuse!

September 21, 2017

KILDARE-based wine importer Arnaud Gaultier had another bad day in the High Court in front of Judge Seamus Noonan. Gaultier has been in... Read more »

Nick Furlong buys Providence

September 21, 2017

IT WAS interesting to watch the feeding frenzy that took place on the Irish Stock Exchange after Providence Resources announced that it had... Read more »

Stressful times for David Ingram

September 7, 2017

MORE on Galvanic Ltd, the intriguing Dublin company that successfully petitioned the High Court to appoint an examiner last month. Fans of Goldhawk... Read more »

Trevor Daly is Lovin the new gig

September 7, 2017

EXCITING times at Niall Harbison’s Lovin media group, which is set to expand operations by opening up franchises in some far-flung places. Maybe... Read more »

Francesca McDonagh’s headache

September 7, 2017

INTERESTING to see chief executive of Bank of Ireland Private Banking (BoIPB) Ltd Mark Cunningham announce his departure last week, just a month... Read more »