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KATE VERLING’S BAD TIMING

March 26, 2020
THE TIMING of beauty business entrepreneur Kate Verling’s recent announcement that her Mink salon is investing a whopping €½m “in an expansion programme” turned... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S FOXROCK VILLA

March 26, 2020
WHILE SELLING substantial properties at the moment looks like a pretty tall ask, there are a few prime properties that have recently come on... Read more »

TOM HIGGINS ROCKETS HOME

March 26, 2020
WELCOME HOME former Irish Psychics Live phone-line operator Tom Higgins and his wife, Theresa Dunne, who are back in Co Wicklow following a rather... Read more »

THE DESMONDS IN DUBLIN 4

March 12, 2020
NOT SURPRISINGLY, billionaire Dermot Desmond’s cunning plan to fix the housing problem attracted plenty of attention, including a fawning interview on Radio 1 with... Read more »

DOMHNAL SLATTERY’S AWARD

March 12, 2020
AVIATION moneybags Domhnal Slattery of the Avolon leasing group must have been delighted with the Glucksman Award for Leadership that he picked up last... Read more »

MARK O’NEILL’S NEW TAX BILL

March 12, 2020
IT LOOKS like artist Mark O’Neill has been just a little careless, given that he has ended up on the list of tax defaulters... Read more »

JAMIE’S OFFSHORE RECIPE

February 27, 2020
THERE WAS mixed news on the restaurant front this month. Following a spate of high-profile closures in January, Derry and Sallyanne Clarke announced they... Read more »

ALI BARKER’S EXIT

February 27, 2020
GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a surprising menu change at restaurateur Ali Barker’s business. In 2018, Barker and separated husband Owen Owens featured in a high-profile spat... Read more »

MR JANET JACKSON’S IRISH INVESTMENTS

February 27, 2020
INTERESTING TO see the Sunday Times reporting that the latest international personality to sue Facebook in Dublin is Qatari moneybags Wissam Al Mana, who... Read more »

DOMINI KEMP’S MENU CHANGE

February 13, 2020
IT HAS been hard to pick up a magazine or TV listings supplement in recent weeks without reading about the new television series fronted... Read more »

ROPEY CARRY-ON IN ELM PARK

February 13, 2020
THE MEMBERS of D4 golf club Elm Park received an interesting email from course director and chairman Tom Ryan pointing to the activities on... Read more »

FFRENCH O’CARROLL’S D4 PILE

February 13, 2020
A DISTINCTIVE pile on Wellington Place in the heart of Dublin 4 being plugged in the property supplements should attract plenty of interest, despite... Read more »

DR EVA’S PRISON

January 30, 2020
FANS OF health guru Dr Eva Orsmond have presumably been glued to the TV on Sunday nights to watch Dr Eva’s Great Escape, in... Read more »

FIONA McHUGH’S OTHER INVESTOR

January 30, 2020
WITH THE denizens of leafy Dublin 6 still mourning the passing of their beloved Fallon & Byrne supermarket – sorry, food hall – and... Read more »

ADRIAN BLANC’S FOXROCK PILE

January 30, 2020
IF THE last couple of years were bad ones for Foxrock-based suit Adrian Blanc (also known as Adrian Le Blanc), 2020 hasn’t got off... Read more »

SOPHIE CAFOLLA’S BABY BOXES

January 16, 2020
AN ARTICLE in the Sunday Times business section last weekend featured advice for small businesses, with one of the players featured being Sophie Cafolla... Read more »

NEW FACES AT IMMA

January 16, 2020
THERE ARE some vacancies to be filled on the board of Imma that should appeal to culture vultures out there. The vacancy that arises... Read more »

FOUR FAULTS IN CONNAUGHT

January 16, 2020
THERE WERE fun and games last week at a specially convened (and ultimately especially heated) meeting of the Connaught region of Showjumping Ireland (SJI)... Read more »

EDEN ONE VS PERPETUA

December 12, 2019
THE LULULEMON-sporting gym bunnies in D4 will be excited at the news that January 15 has been set as the date for the opening... Read more »

CARRY-ON AT THE CARBERY HUNT

December 12, 2019
GOLDHAWK was surprised to see claims of “disgraceful” behaviour associated with the long-established Carbery Foxhounds in Bandon, Co Cork (not to be confused with... Read more »

GREG O’GORMAN’S NEW HURDLE

December 12, 2019
PRESUMABLY, members of the O’Gorman family will be hoping for a quiet 2020 now that the High Court family spat is well behind them.... Read more »

SIMONE ROCHA’S PERFECT WEEKEND

November 28, 2019
LONDON-BASED Irish fashion designer Simone Rocha popped up in the Financial Times’s super glossy ‘How to Spend it’ supplement last weekend to reveal just... Read more »

ABDULAZIZ’S PHOENIX FIASCO

November 28, 2019
FANS OF the turf will have been fascinated by the Racing Post revelation that the founder of the Phoenix Thoroughbreds ‘regulated fund’, Amer Abdulaziz,... Read more »

WILLIAM MCGLADE’S ‘SWAGGER’

November 28, 2019
THE 28-year-old William McGlade must be delighted with the plug for his upmarket Airbnb-style venture, HipHipStay, in the Business Post last weekend. Aimed at... Read more »

JAMIE MYERSCOUGH’S RESTRUCTURING

November 14, 2019
THERE IS still no sign of Jamie Myerscough getting his figures into shape. Meanwhile, his mother Jane (daughter of the late Vincent O’Brien and... Read more »

VOGUE’S IRISH CHAMELEON

November 14, 2019
IT HAS been increasingly hard to avoid Vogue Williams/Spencer lately, with her reality TV series on E4 and an appearance on The Ray D’Arcy... Read more »

HAMDAN’S HORSES

November 14, 2019
THEY DON’T call it the sport of kings for nothing. Take Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum of Dubai, brother of the rather more famous and... Read more »

PIERRE LE BROCQUY’S GRIPE

October 31, 2019
THE ROW over RTÉ’s decision to offload some artworks, most famously two by Louis le Brocquy, rumbles on. It is not surprising to see... Read more »

JESS RYAN’S BEAUTY BUSINESS

October 31, 2019
EARLIER THIS year one of Ireland’s top retailers, Arthur Ryan – the power behind Penneys/Primark – passed away. His daughter, the glamorous Jess Ryan,... Read more »

JOHN GIVEN’S HOUSE

October 31, 2019
FORMER Goodbody solicitor John Given has parachuted into Philip Lee law firm as a senior partner. He is one of the more interesting legal... Read more »

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S BEST LIFE

October 16, 2019
IT HAS been a busy few weeks for ubiquitous model-turned-blogger-turned-designer Pippa O’Connor, social media sensation and wife of TV presenter Brian Ormond. She has... Read more »

ANGELA MOORE’S SEAT

October 16, 2019
THERE IS a new face on the board of the Ireland Funds here. Virginia-based Angela Moore has just been appointed a director and joins... Read more »

DAVID RAETHORNE’S ‘FABULOUS’ HOUSE

October 16, 2019
THE INDO went to town in its property supplement last week, gushing about Brentwood House in Dundrum, Co Dublin, which is on the market... Read more »

JUERG VON GEITZ’S ROLEX

October 3, 2019
AN INTERESTING set of proceedings has just been initiated in the Circuit Court featuring Dublin financier Juerg von Geitz and the long-established Dawson Jewellers... Read more »

GREHAN’S STUD

October 3, 2019
INTERESTING to see Glenkerrin Homes boss Ray Grehan registering a couple of business names with a distinctly horsey ring to them. After being declared... Read more »

LIZ BALBIRNIE’S INTERIOR DESIGN

October 3, 2019
PROPERTY PORN continues to prove popular at RTÉ, where such programmes proliferate the airwaves. At the top of the tree is surely Home of... Read more »