Sat. 2nd. July 2011. OPERATORS of a luxury hotel and spa complex catering to the international jet set have gone into liquidation. The High Court yesterday appointed provisional liquidators to Durgman Entertainment Ltd, which operated the four-star BrookLodge and Wells … Continue reading →

Saturday June 04 2011 Hopes have been raised that Dublin’s Light House cinema will reopen as an arthouse movie theatre. A number of cinema operators have expressed an interest in taking over the business, it emerged today. The arthouse venture … Continue reading →

Wednesday February 23 2011 LOW-profile Irish entrepreneur Michael Holland was yesterday unveiled as the prospective buyer of Four Star Pizza, after he made an offer to buy the embattled fast food company out of examinership. The deal, which was first … Continue reading →

THE 400 jobs put at serious risk, before Christmas, because of the Four Star Pizza chain going into examinership, have been saved with a buyer for the company being found. It was announced yesterday, that the Bray-headquartered company — which … Continue reading →

06 February 2011 Entertainment entrepreneurs Paddy Dunning, John Reynolds and Eoin Foyle stand to lose more than €800,000 they invested in the Button Factory venue in Temple Bar in Dublin, which has gone into examinership. Dunning said that the three … Continue reading →

ONE OF Dublin’s best-known music venues, the Button Factory, has gone into examinership. Neil Hughes, of Hughes Blake, has been appointed interim examiner of Temple Lane Management Limited, the company behind the venue, which is controlled by businessman Paraic Dunning … Continue reading →

More than half of the shops in the Celtic Bookmakers chain have been saved from closure, it was revealed tonight. Sixteen shops in the collapsed gambling chain, headed up by former Fine Gael minister Ivan Yates, shut down with the … Continue reading →

THE High Court has approved a survival plan for the Zumo juice and smoothie bars chain. Mediterranean Food and Wine Ltd, the company which operates the bars at various locations around the country, was granted the protection of the court … Continue reading →

THE High Court will be asked later this month to approve a survival plan for the Zumo Juice and Smoothie bars chain. Mediterranean Food and Wine Ltd, the company which operates the Zumo Juice and Smoothie bars and is the … Continue reading →

BOOKMAKER, BROADCASTER and former minister Ivan Yates has conceded he may face financial ruin after Celtic Bookmakers, the betting chain he owns with his wife Deirdre, was placed in receivership, owing €6 million to AIB. Neil Hughes of accountants Hughes … Continue reading →