Article Category: Brief Cases

Mary Harney’s healthy outlook

February 8, 2018

MORE good news for former Tánaiste Mary Harney whose career in the private sector is really taking off. Fans of Goldhawk will recall... Read more »

Rupert Murdoch’s radio signal

January 25, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised to read last week that Rebekah Brooks had confirmed the interest of her boss, Rupert... Read more »

Darryl Kavanagh’s tumbledown Shack

January 25, 2018

MORE on the sudden closure of the Seafood Shack restaurant in Cardiff, Wales last month where Waterford businessman Darryl Kavanagh has popped up.... Read more »

More Pembroke problems for Peter Conlon

January 25, 2018

IT’S BEEN a tough start to 2018 for Geneva-based charity tech guru Peter Conlon after the High Court ordered the liquidation of one... Read more »

Emmet O’Neill’s boardroom moves

January 25, 2018

MORE manoeuvres at Niall Harbison’s media company, LD Lovin Dublin Ltd, where Denis O’Brien’s nephew Emmet O’Neill has just joined the board. Meanwhile,... Read more »

Taxman’s tough medicine

January 25, 2018

GOLDHAWK spotted some familiar names that have popped up in Stubbs Gazette since the start of the year. Dr Naveed Khawaja, a consultant... Read more »

McNamara’s Donabate development

January 25, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Bernard McNamara who was given the green light late last year to build his first residential development since the crash. McNamara... Read more »

Dervla Kenny’s planning win

January 11, 2018

HARD LUCK to Caroline and Veitch McCombs who have had a planning appeal rejected by An Bord Pleanála (ABP), despite the inspector giving... Read more »

Greg Kavanagh’s Globe hangover

January 11, 2018

INTERESTING to see that one of Arklow developer Greg Kavanagh’s pub companies was taken to the High Court by the dreaded taxman just... Read more »

Kenny group’s asylum centre

January 11, 2018

A RAFT of companies in Limerick developer Martin Kenny’s property group have had receivers appointed to them by Howard Stanley Marks’s Oaktree Capital... Read more »

Declan Ryan’s tough medicine

January 11, 2018

JUST BEFORE Christmas, the directors of a company called Growcorp Group voted to wind up the company and appointed Bryan O’Neill as liquidator.... 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... Read more »

Joan Rowland’s roof collapse

January 11, 2018

IT’S BEEN a bad start to 2018 for Castlebar couple Joan and Paul Rowland, who were landed with matching judgments for nearly €1.4m... Read more »

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 »

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 »

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 »