High Society Archives

DER KAISER’S TRUSTEES

June 12, 2025

DERMOT DESMOND’S favourite charity, the Chester Beatty Library (CBL) – where he is a trustee “for life” – is set to get some... Read more »

IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

HYLAND’S GRAVE CONCERN

June 12, 2025

THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held its recent AGM in the near empty Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association headquarters in Kill, Co... Read more »

ROMAN STERN’S EXPENSIVE ADVENTURE

June 12, 2025

GOLDHAWK NOTES that number-cruncher Roy Scannell of Moore Ireland has just been installed as liquidator of a company called SWR Properties Ltd. This... Read more »

A LOAD OF POLLOCKS

May 29, 2025

THE IMPRESSIVE early 18th-century Mountainstown House on 121 acres outside Navan, Co Meath, will be auctioned on June 12, having been in the... Read more »

IMAGE’S TAX DEAL

May 29, 2025

THE MCDONNELL sisters, Jane and Sarah, had an outing in The Currency last week, where they got to plug their latest venture, Design... Read more »

TOM HIGGINS’S FLIGHT PLAN

May 29, 2025

IN THE wake of the high-profile ‘gals in space’ media stunt by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, it is interesting to note that the... Read more »

McDOWELL’S TIKTOK TRIUMPH

May 15, 2025
BELFAST-BASED cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell (who landed the Entrepreneur of the Year award at Ali Ryan’s Gossies bash in the RDS last year) continues... Read more »

TOM KENNEDY’S YOGA STUDIO

May 15, 2025

AN IMPRESSIVE six-bedroom pile in D14 that has gone on the market with a chunky €4m price tag turns out to be owned... Read more »

LAURA MAGEE’S ‘THOROUGHBRED EXPERIENCES’

May 15, 2025

WHILE MINISTERS Peter Burke (enterprise and trade) and Martin Heydon (agriculture and food) were no doubt entertained on Punchestown’s Gold Cup day, they... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S SUPPORT

May 1, 2025

IT IS slow ahead on Shrewsbury Road in D4, where aircraft leasing moneybags Aengus Kelly and his wife, Deirdre O’Malley, are looking to... Read more »

D6 DENIZENS

May 1, 2025

IT WAS reported by the Sindo that “the well-heeled denizens of Palmerston Road in Dublin 6” would be raising a toast on foot... Read more »

OFFLOADING PEMBROKESTOWN HOUSE

May 1, 2025

WITH A price tag of just on €3m, following a “remarkable renovation”, including a “showstopping swimming pool”, the impressive early 19th-century Pembrokestown House... Read more »

KARL WHELAN’S GOOGLE GRUB

April 17, 2025

IT IS full steam ahead at the brash Boland’s Mill development in Dublin’s south docklands, acquired by Google for a reported €300m. Interestingly,... Read more »

EMMA MAYE’S MANSION

April 17, 2025

GOLDHAWK NOTES that Weavers Hall, a “New England style” mansion off Westminster Road in Foxrock, has come on the market with an asking... Read more »

GRÁINNE’S SWEET LIFE

April 17, 2025

LAST WEEK, in the run-up to the busy Easter period for chocolate-maker Gráinne Mullins of the high-profile Grá Chocolates operation in Galway, she... Read more »

MARY CANNON’S JOINT

April 3, 2025

AN IMPRESSIVE looking timber-clad pile on the salubrious Claremont Road in Howth has just gone on the market with a chunky €3m price... Read more »

KIERAN WALSH’S STYLE

April 3, 2025

LOADED COSMETICS entrepreneur Kieran Walsh was, er, made up recently when he landed a gong at the Cork Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,... Read more »

SILVANA’S ‘HANDBAG INVESTMENTS’

April 3, 2025

CONGRATULATIONS TO Argentinian-Italian handbag queen Silvana Landa, who landed yet another big plug in the Business Post last month, just one year after... Read more »

CHARLES NOELL III SELLS UP

March 20, 2025

THE SQUIRE of Ardbraccan House in Co Meath, US moneybags Charles E Noell III, has stuck the splendid estate on the market with... Read more »

PRESENCE PAY DAY

March 20, 2025

PR QUEENS Joanne Byrne and Sinéad Ryan are winding up their successful Presence Communications PR and celebrity company after more than 20 years... Read more »

CATHERINE FULVIO’S HIDDEN RECIPE

March 20, 2025

SO-CALLED celebrity chef Catherine Fulvio’s latest dish was an undercooked offering served up on RTÉ to celebrate Paddy’s weekend – Catherine Fulvio’s St... Read more »

SHARON SMURFIT’S DRIVE

March 6, 2025

GOLF-MAD Sharon Smurfit must have been delighted with the big promotion for her latest adventure at the weekend – the purchase of a... Read more »

PAMPERED POOCHES

March 6, 2025

IT TURNS out that some people spend an eye-watering amount of money on their pets these days, including, for example, €9,000 to have... Read more »

SLEVOIR’S LOW-KEY OWNERS

March 6, 2025

A RECENT update to the Land Registry records show that the impressive listed Slevoir House near Terryglass, Co Tipperary – which featured on... Read more »

FRANK MOLONEY’S JET TURBULENCE

February 20, 2025

THE YEAR has started off with yet more turbulence for the Shannon-based private jet fleet operator Westair Aviation, which has been backed by... Read more »

AFTER THE AGA KHAN

February 20, 2025

IRISH HORSERACING lost a big supporter with the death of the Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims.... Read more »

NOELLE’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

February 20, 2025

GOLDHAWK WASN’T too surprised to see a glowing report on the adventures of fake (sorry, sunless) tan queen Noelle O’Connor in the Sindo... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S SMASH

February 6, 2025

THERE COULD be quite the racket in Old Belvedere Rugby Club next week if a controversial plan to demolish the squash courts and... Read more »

DOIREANN GARRIHY’S U-TURN

February 6, 2025

ANOTHER FAMILIAR name from Dances With The Stars is Doireann Garrihy, who fronts the show alongside Jennifer Zamparelli. While DG’s presence in the... Read more »

DUNDON’S QUICK STEP

February 6, 2025

HAVING LASTED longer than most predicted, clunky Kevin Dundon’s participation in RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars further boosted the profile of the so-called... Read more »

MAURICE REGAN’S LATEST MOVE

January 23, 2025

GOLDHAWK WAS not overly surprised to see one Maurice Regan riding to the rescue of toe-tapper Michael Flatley this month. It is presumably... Read more »

NIALL GUNNE’S BUS CORRIDOR

January 23, 2025

ONE OF the juicier-looking properties to arrive on the market is a large house on Rathgar’s leafy Highfield Road, which got a glowing... Read more »

SIMONE’S ‘SUBVERSIVE WORLD’

January 9, 2025

FASHION DESIGNER du jour Simone Rocha will be hard-pressed to top her performance in 2024, which started with her outfits on show at... Read more »

MAGNIER’S LAUGHING WATERS

January 9, 2025

WHILE THE increasing appetite of John Magnier’s Coolmore operation for agricultural land has become something of a talking point here in the last... Read more »

ALLEN KRAUSE’S MADRID MOVES

January 9, 2025

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE Mexican-English millionaire, Allen de Jesus Sanginés-Krause – the squire of Killua Castle in Co Westmeath, where he lives much of the... Read more »

JOHN MAGNIER’S ROOSTING BATS

December 12, 2024

JOHN MAGNIER has been attracting a lot of attention lately and, especially in Co Tipperary, the aggressive acquisition of large tracts of land... Read more »