Full coverage: Insolvency

Patrick McCormack, the former boss of the McCauley pharmacy chain, is leading the consortium to buy Ramona Nicholas’s Cara chain from insolvency. Here, we reveal how much money is being invested, how much is being written down and the future plans for the chain.

In September, Ramona McNicholas’s chain of chemists went into examinership as creditors bayed for €3.7 million. Now another pharmacist turned businessman is getting ready to take her place.

A minority family shareholder was accused in the High Court of going on a “wrecking mission” as Broderick's main stakeholder positioned itself as a steady hand on the tiller.

Ramona Nicholas and her husband Canice wanted to build an international chain of 100 pharmacies. Instead, confidential documents reveal the true scale of the company’s financial woes, including a history of losses, debt, and creditor default. Can it now be saved?

Rapt Touch hoped to crack the multi-billion-euro touch-screen technology market but found things hard-going. Its biggest backer, Dermot Desmond, has now appointed a receiver to two firms behind it.

Three decades ago this week, the Oireachtas rushed through emergency legislation to save Larry Goodman’s beef processing empire, triggering Ireland’s first-ever examinership. A lawyer who was in the room looks back on the process that kept the Goodman Group afloat – and many businesses since.

Former Arthur Cox boss Eugene McCague was a top corporate insolvency lawyer during the recession of the 1980s and the financial crash a decade ago. He believes the current crisis will leave deep scars, particularly in retail, hospitality, and travel.

A series of companies connected with the retail were liquidated today, with its owner pointing to the pandemic and the collapse in future tourism. Most of the money is due to the family behind the business.

When US investment firm Marathon Asset Management swooped in on Irish property after the financial crisis, three Debenhams stores entered its portfolio. The landlord is now suing the retailer.

A High Court judge has approved a plan combining creditor haircuts and investment by Thurles Wholesale Cash and Carry, the company owned by the Kildare-based Cox family of grocery wholesalers.