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Bitter taste for steakhouse directors

November 16, 2016

SPARE a thought for the directors of the Spur (Liffey Valley) Restaurants Ltd who were restricted from acting as company directors in the... 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... Read more »

Stunning behaviour in Newcastle West

November 3, 2016

GALWAY rockers The Stunning, fronted by brothers Joe and Steve Wall, went public last week with a row that’s been brewing between them... 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... 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... Read more »

Redhill car crash continues

November 3, 2016

THE long-running saga of Redhill Properties Ltd continued last month when the company had a tax judgment registered against it – a mere... Read more »

Baron Taylor’s hefty losses

November 3, 2016

ONE interesting company to file accounts recently was BOL Pubs Ltd, which trades as O’Loughlin’s Pub in Birr, Co Offaly. The unassuming pub... Read more »

Ger Madden’s bad day in court

November 3, 2016

IT TURNS out that Goldhawk’s old pal Ger Madden was declared bankrupt in the High Court earlier this year. The former Radio Limerick... Read more »

Tax trouble won’t sink Pat Cowman

October 20, 2016

SPARE a thought for Belmullet businessman Pat Cowman who was named in the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters for filing incorrect VAT... Read more »

Christina O in choppy waters

October 20, 2016

THE high profile Dublin solicitor, Ivor Fitzpatrick, is heading for rough seas with his Sandyway Investments Ltd which is now listed for striking... Read more »

Nick O’Connor’s litany of woe

October 20, 2016

IT’S BEEN a torrid year for Wexford accountant Nicholas O’Connor who just had another judgment registered against him by the Revenue. The former... Read more »

Rupert Murdoch’s Storyful of losses

October 20, 2016

IT’s one of the great new media success stories but it looks like the sale of Dublin company Storyful to Rupert Murdoch’s News... Read more »

Ronan O’Gara’s settlement

October 20, 2016

THERE was good news for Ireland and Munster rugby legend Ronan O’Gara recently when his firm managed to settle an outstanding tax bill.... Read more »

James Rogers’s tax troubles

October 20, 2016

DUNDALK accountant James Rogers is in trouble with the taxman after having a judgment for €63,000 registered against him at the end of... Read more »

David Healy’s Insurance

October 20, 2016
MORE on the Healy family from Cork; it will be recalled that brothers Michael and Pat Healy were disqualified from acting as company directors... Read more »

Receivers swarm on Shannon Town

October 20, 2016

THERE was more bad news for the hospitality sector in Shannon Town when the popular Shannon Knights bar was placed in receivership at... Read more »

Sibling rivalry at Abbey

October 5, 2016

THERE COULD be fun and games at the annual general meeting of the Abbey plc house building operation this week when Peter Gallagher,... Read more »

Val Timon’s Taxman troubles

October 5, 2016

ONE interesting name to pop up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters was solicitor Val Timon, who was fined €1,500 in... Read more »

Robert Butler’s Hanging Gardens

October 5, 2016

ONE of the four sites named in the Limerick Twenty Thirty (LTT) development plan has an interesting history, linked to NAMA developer, Robert... Read more »

Noonan’s Limerick Curtain Call

October 5, 2016

FINANCE minister Michael Noonan must be delighted that the Limerick development plan seems to finally be getting off the ground. The strategy, which... Read more »

Alan Barrett’s court dates

October 5, 2016

FORMER director of EventElephant Ltd, Alan Barrett will be sentenced later this month after pleading guilty to charges relating to the incorrect filing... Read more »

Hangover for Cork accountant Twohig

October 5, 2016

ONE familiar name to appear on Revenue’s latest list of Tax Defaulters was Goldhawk’s old pal, Cork accountant and ex-publican Edward Twohig. Edward,... Read more »

End in sight for Edgeworth debacle

September 21, 2016

IT LOOKS like the Pilot Training College of Ireland Ltd (PTC Ireland) saga might be coming to an end now that the company’s... Read more »

City Council gets tough over pyrite damage

September 21, 2016

INTERESTING to see Dublin City Council’s senior structural engineer Peter Finnegan admitting just how difficult it will be to recoup costs from developers... Read more »

High-flying Stritch’s crash landing

September 21, 2016

SPARE a thought for Goldhawk’s old pal, Peter Stritch, the colourful Clare farmer who has had several high profile run-ins with the authorities... Read more »

Elliot Hughes’s Porterhouse profits

September 21, 2016

QUIET congratulations are in order for Elliot Hughes who, under tragic circumstances, looks set to take over the Porterhouse network of pubs and... Read more »

Geoff Wycherley misses the fairway

September 21, 2016

SPARE a thought for Co Cork builder and businessman Geoffrey “Geoff” Wycherley whose company Totus Developments Ltd had a receiver appointed to it... Read more »

Millionaire McLoughlin’s Eye for Profits

September 7, 2016

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to Irish YouTube sensation Sean McLoughlin, who made it into a recent Irish Times list of the “22 twenty-somethings”... Read more »

Tipp solicitor’s noble clientele

September 7, 2016

GOLDHAWK spotted a tax judgment registered against a very interesting Tipperary solicitor recently. John G O’Donnell, of O’Donnell Solicitors in Tipperary Town, had... Read more »

MARIE GORMAN

September 7, 2016

A LIMERICK fashion company called Claraffa Ltd had a judgment registered against it last week by South Dublin County Council. The company operates... Read more »

Limerick liquidator’s court battles

September 7, 2016

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting judgment in the Court of Appeal recently related to Limerick accountant Anthony J Fitzpatrick. He was voluntarily appointed liquidator... Read more »

Ronan O’Gara misses touch

September 7, 2016

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Irish rugby ace Ronan O’Gara who, along with his wife Jessica, was named sport and style ambassador for... Read more »

Another bad day for Ken McMoreland

September 7, 2016

GOLDHAWK’s old pal, Sligo accountant Ken McMoreland had a miserable day in the High Court recently, courtesy of Judge Miriam O’Regan. In the... Read more »

Marie Gorman’s costs

September 7, 2016

MORE on Marie Gorman, wife of Roscommon agricultural consultant Pauraic Larkin. It will be recalled that Eugene McCarthy, appointed liquidator to Pauraic Larkin... Read more »

Odessa Club soldiers on

August 24, 2016

IT’S BEEN a tough couple of years for popular Dublin bar and restaurant Odessa Club with the company that operates the venue, Odessa... Read more »

Michael Doody’s tax woes

August 24, 2016

CORK legal eagle Michael Doody has had yet another judgment registered against him by the Revenue, his seventh since 2012. The judgment against... Read more »