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More Surprises From Shanghai

December 4, 2015

FINALLY, the saga of Financial Plaza Shanghai Ltd (FPS), the British Virgin Islands company owned by around 140 Irish investors, who together spent... Read more »

Creditors’ Meeting For Intrade

December 4, 2015

INTERESTING to see that a creditors’ meeting has been called for Intrade The Prediction Market Ltd and its related company, Trade Exchange Network... Read more »

Rick Larkin And The Taxman

November 20, 2015

SOME bad news for highflying developer Rick Larkin. His family owned company, Vieira Ltd, which trades as Twinlite, has just come out on... Read more »

Mary Cullen On The Warpath

November 20, 2015

FANS of Goldhawk will recall that earlier this year, Dublin publican and hotelier David Cullen – who was on the receiving end of... Read more »

Arnold Fanning’s Bank Blues

November 20, 2015

BIRR-BASED businessman Arnold Fanning, the principal in Midland Web Printing Ltd (MWP) – which came close to buying Buy and Sell last year,... Read more »

‘Ronaldo’ Kavanagh’s Own Goal

November 20, 2015

DEVELOPER Greg Kavanagh of New Generation Homes has been making plenty of waves in the business pages in recent months and is currently... Read more »

Fresh Legal Woes For Alan Hanly

November 20, 2015

NAMA developer Alan Hanly of the Hanly Group has fresh legal woes to contend with and is currently being sued by various owners... Read more »

Brian Goff’s Court Date

November 20, 2015

VETERAN Dublin restaurateur Brian Goff – one of the founders of the Insomnia coffee chain – is one busy man and is currently... Read more »

HOT AIR BRIGADE

November 6, 2015

Alfred Hitchcock once said that the greatest female stars had the trick of transforming themselves into a blank canvas onto which the masses... Read more »

Kathryn Thomas’s Shares

November 6, 2015

THERE was some bad news last month for Carlow-based developer Gwynne Thomas – father to RTÉ star Kathryn Thomas – when a company... Read more »

Jamie White’s Rehabilitation

November 6, 2015

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to budding young Dublin publisher, Jamie White, who enjoyed a nice plug earlier this month in the Sunday Independent,... Read more »

Luigi Wewege’s Legal Contacts

November 6, 2015

MORE ON Luigi Wewege, the colourful boss of Irish registered subprime mortgage company, Vivier Mortgages Ltd (VML), which is currently suing RTÉ for... Read more »

Tom Keane’s Bust Up With Beancounters

November 6, 2015

DUBLIN accountant Tom Keane – of BKRM accountants in north Dublin – has come out on the losing side of a row with... Read more »

Clare Dooley’s Double-Dealing

November 6, 2015

FINANCIAL advisor Clare Dooley escaped jail last month over an insurance scam against New Ireland Life Assurance plc, but she was disqualified from... Read more »

Ruairi O’Ceallaigh’s Tax Affairs

November 6, 2015

SOME more bad news for disgraced legal eagle Ruairi O’Ceallaigh, who was jailed in 2014 for five years (with the final two years... Read more »

The Return Of Alan Hynes

November 6, 2015

GOLDHAWK was curious to learn of reports emanating from Wexford concerning disgraced accountant Alan Hynes, who has clocked up numerous findings of misconduct... Read more »

More Bum Notes For Gary Hansard

November 6, 2015

NOT for the first time, Dublin property investor Gary Hansard – brother of Frames frontman Glen Hansard – has landed in trouble with... Read more »