Full coverage: 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.

Clonmannon was a Co Wicklow estate with 44 bungalows, ready to be transformed into a retirement village. Chinese investors put millions of euro into the project. Now they are trying to pull the plug on the business over alleged debts and fears of asset dissipation.

The hunt to recover assets for Irish investors stung by the collapse of the Germany property investment scheme sprawls three jurisdictions.

Concerns about dividend payments were raised by a counter party working with Glenbeigh on the construction of 107 apartments in Dundrum in south Dublin.

Irish-founded PFS Card Services (PCSIL) was bought by Australia's EML Group for €148m in 2020. Now it has gone into provisional liquidation, impacting two million cards.

Russian sanctions left the SH Minerva polar cruise ship stranded in Uruguay. Its operators are suing two Irish companies linked to Russian state lessor GTLK, claiming multi-million euro damages. Complicating matters is that one of the companies, GTLK Europe, is now in liquidation.

Founded a dozen years ago, Hang Tough Studio imprinted itself on the contemporary art scene in Ireland. From the outside it looked like a slick operation, so how did it go so rapidly from Swiss art shows to liquidation?

The High Court agreed to wind-up the social housing builder after attempts to draw in new investment to Blacklough failed. The company had recently been the target of several attacks, including a masked raid on one of its sites.