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MAIREAD RONAN’S SCHEDULE

August 8, 2019
THERE HAS been plenty of showbiz coverage this month of Mairead Ronan’s landing of a prime time radio slot on Today FM. Radio presenting... Read more »

ALI BARKER’S BACKERS

August 8, 2019
RESTAURATEUR Ali Barker has saved one of her companies from being struck off thanks to a last minute filing, which reveals some new investors.... Read more »

WRIGHT FAMILY AT WAR

August 8, 2019
INTERESTING TO see proceedings lodged in the Four Goldmines by assorted companies associated with the Wright fish dynasty in Howth. The matriarch here is... Read more »

JOHNNIE COOKE’S NEW BACKER

July 25, 2019
RESTAURATEUR Johnnie Cooke is expanding his empire again, this time with the opening of Juanito’s on trendy Drury Street, D2. Apparently, it is an... Read more »

RACHAEL NAUGHTON’S ‘RETREATS’

July 25, 2019
RACHAEL NAUGHTON, daughter of Martin and Carmel Naughton of Glen Dimplex fame, has stepped down from the board of the Irish Undergraduate Awards Company... Read more »

DENIS BROSNAN’S WRITE-OFF

July 25, 2019
FORMER Kerry Foods boss Denis Brosnan has had a myriad of interests since he went his own way in 2003. One constant down the... Read more »

CYNTHIA CHUA’S VIBRATIONS

July 11, 2019
IT’S INTERESTING to see that the colourful and loaded Cynthia Chua – who has recently been extolling the virtues of “perfuming your vejayjay” and... Read more »

MUBARAK AL NAEMI’S NAGS

July 11, 2019
THE UPCOMING (July 24) auction at the Dunraven Arms in Adare of the impressive Kilfrush Stud in Co Limerick should attract plenty of attention... Read more »

JUDY WOODWORTH’S BEIT STRATEGY

July 11, 2019
LAST MONTH saw the inaugural Kaleidoscope festival take place in the grounds of Russborough House in Co Wicklow. Given the positive feedback, it looks... Read more »

TARKA RUSSELL’S CREDENTIALS

June 27, 2019
CONGRATULATIONS to young Tarka Russell, a glamorous addition to the board of the Glucksman art gallery in UCC. Having studied art history and now... Read more »

YVETTE MONAHAN’S MOOLAH

June 27, 2019
THERE WAS a creditors’ meeting held in the offices of Outlook Accounts in Tallaght last week, which featured the winding up of a little-known... Read more »

SEAMUS FITZPATRICK’S BUSY SCHEDULE

June 27, 2019
THESE ARE busy time for moneybags Seamus Fitzpatrick, who is fighting on two fronts. It was reported earlier this month that Fitzpatrick had lobbed... Read more »

ROY BARRETT’S D4 PILE

June 12, 2019
A PROPERTY in the heart of Ballsbridge has just come on the market with a hefty €5.75m price tag. The impressive Ailesbury Road house... Read more »

MORE MILLIONS FROM HORSEY SET

June 12, 2019
THE REOPENING (at last) of the revamped Curragh racetrack, complete with a brand new four-tiered stand was marked by some unexpected whistling noises in... Read more »

BERNARD KIRK’S BOARD

June 12, 2019
WITH THE recent departure of a couple of directors, the board of Philanthropy Ireland (PI) is looking a little light in numbers, with up... Read more »

FRANK AND THERESA McNAMARA’S ADVENTURES

May 29, 2019
THIS WEEK saw the return to court of the proceedings by a culture fund, Apollo Global, against one-time ‘celebrity’ couple Frank and Theresa McNamara,... Read more »

JANE’S STRAY HORSES

May 29, 2019
A COMPANY called Animal Security Ltd has been quietly dissolved. The name may not be too familiar to readers, but it previously operated under... Read more »

BRIAN RANALOW’S INVESTMENT

May 29, 2019
INTERESTING to see Dublin moneybags and artist Brian Ranalow investing a wedge of cash in Genos Investments Ltd this month. Genos is a big... Read more »

BELLA HUDDART’S SOFT PILLOWS

May 16, 2019
READERS OF The Irish Times were given a crash course this month in how to short-let a property by making it “stand out from... Read more »

DAN MORRISSEY’S €5.5M PILE

May 16, 2019
IT’S NOT every day that a €5.5m house goes on the market in Co Dublin, but that is the case with the very private... Read more »

TONY GANNON’S CHARITY

May 16, 2019
ACCOUNTS recently filed for Tony Gannon’s investment management operation, Abbey Capital, show that profits continue to roll in. Happily, a chunk of the moolah... Read more »

DANIELLE RYAN AT CANNES

May 2, 2019
CONGRATULATIONS are due to Fantastic Films, which saw its Vivarium selected to compete at the snooty Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. While... Read more »

NIAMH PATTEN’S JEWELLERY

May 2, 2019
A JEWELLERY venture established by Niamh Patten shut its doors recently after a short-lived existence in the city centre. Despite the backing of a... Read more »

OFFLOADING LAURISTON

May 2, 2019
AN EDWARDIAN house on Ranelagh’s Park Drive (backing onto the playing fields of Gonzaga College) caught the eye of the Sindo last weekend, with... Read more »

ANTHONY MCGRATH’S ANTIQUES

April 18, 2019
LAST WEEK’S popular Channel 4 series, 24 hours in Police Custody, featured one Anthony McGrath, an Irish-born orthopaedic surgeon with a “very privileged background”.... Read more »

CATHERINE’S RICH RECIPES

April 18, 2019
NEXT MONTH ‘celebrity chef’ Catherine Fulvio dons her glad rags (Irish designers were frothing at the bit) and flies off to southern California for... Read more »

SINGAPORE MONEYBAGS

April 18, 2019
INTERESTING TO see that the man understood to have bought the Dublin City Hotel and Trinity Bar on Dame Street, D2, is one Stanley... Read more »

LIZ OAKES’S EYEBROWS

April 4, 2019
AS BUSINESS ideas go, eco friendly water-based cremation is one certain to provoke interest. The woman behind the plan to bring this technology to... Read more »

CIARÁN MURRAY’S HOUSES

April 4, 2019
IT WAS pointed out in The Irish Times recently that former Icon plc boss Ciarán Murray and his wife, Denise Ronan, managed to purchase... Read more »

SPRING CLEAN AT LISSELAN HOUSE

April 4, 2019
A YEAR after Colette Twomey – the woman behind Clonakilty Black Pudding – snapped up the splendid Lisselan House outside Clonakilty, Co Cork, the... Read more »

BERNIE BUTLER’S ENERGY BALLS

March 21, 2019
AT LAST week’s DMX Dublin marketing conference in the Aviva stadium, the great and good gave their tuppence worth, including the likes of former... Read more »

ROSHEEN McGUCKIAN’S EXIT

March 21, 2019
THERE HAVE been changes at NTR’s charitable foundation, with NTR chief executive Rosheen McGuckian, who chaired the charity, stepping down last year. McGuckian is... Read more »

KAREN’S WEDDING DATES

March 21, 2019
THE IRISH arm of a business that organises glamorous weddings in the port of Lindos on the sunny Greek island of Rhodes has come... Read more »

LOSSES AT LISS ARD

March 7, 2019
HAVING FIRST gone on the market over two-and-a-half years ago, it is probably not surprising that the asking price for the sprawling Liss Ard... Read more »

MYERSCOUGH’S WORKOUT

March 7, 2019
WITH THE campaign against the imposition of the top rate of VAT on health food supplements, it is not surprising that Jamie Myerscough has... Read more »

McKILLEN’S ART WORK

March 7, 2019
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Paddy McKillen knows a bit about art and likes to spend some of his loose change acquiring works. He also has a stake... Read more »