Full coverage: liquidation

Two months after the French-style bistro went bust, Revenue has moved against another group entity over debt. The company Taurus Management Consultancy Ltd used to operate The Grand Social before the venue was sold.

Companies in the investment group have been falling like dominoes as a garda investigation into alleged criminality at the business continues.

Liquidators assigned to several companies controlled by Colm Wu, a hospitality operator who ran venues including gastropub Mulligan & Haines, have alleged there were transactions made at some of those businesses that amounted to fraud.

The special purpose vehicle, controlled by property developers Brian and Anthony Durkan, borrowed heavily from Irish Nationwide for a €750m development in Celbridge which stalled over zoning changes. It has now sold off its last Co Kildare asset and is winding up.

City Quarter Capital II, an investment company within the BlackBee group, failed to file accounts since 2018 and was described by a High Court judge as “manifestly insolvent” in a ruling on Friday.

The row centres on money allegedly due to creditors from two multi-million euro payouts to Siac in Polish litigation after a major roads project went wrong and derailed the business, now in liquidation.

When it opened in 1976 there was nothing like Alias Tom in Dublin. Times change, however, and now the well-known store has gone into liquidation.

Members’ voluntary liquidations increased in number but realised smaller assets for their shareholders in 2023.

Court filings and company documents reveal the battle to keep the Health Store retail chain alive and shed light on what went wrong for the retailer.

A provisional liquidator was urgently appointed last week to protect creditors' interest in Clonmannon House, a property valued at circa €4 million. This Monday, the company was wound up following a petition by a Chinese investor.