Full coverage: Insolvency

Mounting costs, changing consumer behaviour, and “the Shein and Temu effect” have led Jenni Timony to pull the plug on her FitPink clothing brand, she explains.

Liquidators to a company within collapsed women’s and men’s fashion retail chain Born Clothing founded by Joan Lynch and John Curley in 2010 have identified loans to connected parties. This includes €998,000 to Curley.

Two years after it entered the Nasdaq, an Irish company promising to become a leading transatlantic solar power producer is leaving investors and creditors to nurse heavy losses.

Court protection has been extended to the artisan chocolatier in Co Kerry as three investors submit proposals to rescue Paddy McKillen Jr's struggling business.

The craft chocolate business, controlled by Paddy McKillen Jr, is cash-flow insolvent with debts of around €2.7m, including over €900,000 owing to the Revenue Commissioners, the court heard. An investor linked to the businessman is understood to be in the wings.

Simultaneous insolvencies and new openings across the leading publican’s portfolio can be head-spinning. They reflect the fortunes of venues financed independently and carrying different baggage from pandemic times.

The Limerick start-up has raised funding from Frontline Ventures and angel investors like Des Traynor but has scheduled a creditors meeting next month with a view to appointing liquidators.

Solar 21, the under pressure energy group, alleges in a letter to investors it is the victim of a “systematic and coordinated campaign.” It now wants to place various companies into “administration or liquidation”

Mark Raddan, Interpath’s chief executive, and Kieran Wallace, a managing director in its Dublin office, talk exclusively on the sale of a majority stake in the professional services firm which employs 1,000 people including 100 in Ireland.

Dara & Co was started nearly two years ago by Naomh McElhatton in the area of edtech and personal development. It has appointed liquidators to wind up the company.