Article Category: High Society

SHAKE-UP AT RESIDENCE

October 5, 2016
THE OWNER of private members club, Residence, on Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green – Olivia Gaynor-Long – who has pumped millions into the struggling business... Read more »

O’REILLY’S NATIONAL TREASURE

September 21, 2016
THE ONGOING bankruptcy of Bahamas-based Tony O’Reilly continues to generate plenty of media interest much to the chagrin of the hapless former moneybags. The... Read more »

DOC O’DONNELL’S FERRARI

September 21, 2016
INTERESTING to see a Waterford hospital consultant heading to the Four Goldmines over the sale of his Ferrari. He has made headlines before for... Read more »

AISLING HOLLY’S COSMETIC CLINICS

September 21, 2016
LISA MURPHY, former fiancée of legal eagle Gerald Kean, featured on the cover of VIP magazine last month, where she told readers she was... Read more »

BELINDA STRUDWICK’S GOOD TIMES

September 7, 2016
LAST MONTH glamorous Belinda Strudwick popped up in The Owner column of the Irish Field to give her tuppenceworth on horseracing. When asked what... Read more »

Suing Dermot O’Rourke

September 7, 2016
THE SINDO society pages focused last month on the Berkshire wedding of Iain O’Rourke and Charlie McKinney. Iain was described as the son of... Read more »

TANYIA DEANE’S CASTLE

September 7, 2016
INTERESTING to see fashion designer-turned horse healer Tanyia Deane and her hubby upping sticks to move to sunny Florida. This means the couple have... Read more »

CULLEN’S CANDY IS DANDY

August 24, 2016
THE FRONT page of the Sunday Times property supplement last weekend featured a Killiney pile owned by former candy czar Peter Cullen and his... Read more »

CHRISTIAN STOKES’S HIGH FLYERS

August 24, 2016
A NEW private jet hire service has arrived in Ireland and got a nice plug in the Indo earlier this month. However, there was... Read more »

THERESA’S FRENCH FROLICS

August 24, 2016
WHILE THE sport of kings is dominated here by Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore operation, there are rich pickings to be had for wily... Read more »

WHAT NOW FOR THE KNIGHTS OF GLIN?

August 10, 2016
WHAT GOOD news that the FitzGeralds are “staying on” in Glin Castle as announced by Dominic West the husband of Catherine FitzGerald, eldest daughter... Read more »

THE HEALY philanthropy

August 10, 2016
ONE FINALIST in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year competition is Maurice Healy, the multi-millionaire businessman, described by The Irish Times as one of... Read more »

MICHAEL SMURFIT AT 80

August 10, 2016
IF ONE is to believe even a fraction of Niamh Horan’s gushing account in the Sindo of Michael Smurfit’s 80th birthday bash aboard the... Read more »

RENVILLE HOUSE’S NEW OWNER

July 28, 2016
THE NEW owner of Renville House on 130 acres outside Oranmore overlooking Galway Bay is burger and chips millionaire Pat McDonagh of Supermac’s fame.... Read more »

Colgan’s property pals

July 28, 2016
THE HIRING of the Gate’s Michael Colgan as an arts adviser by boom-time developer Sean Mulryan (who has now exited Nama) is the kind... Read more »

GREG BRODERICK’S CLEAR ROUND

July 28, 2016
SHOWJUMPING has been in the news thanks to the Irish Horse Show at the RDS but there has also been another story garnering attention... Read more »

Tsouros makes a sale

July 15, 2016
CONGRATULATIONS to Patricia Tsouros, who looks to have made a few bob from the sale of her art venture, set up in the aftermath... Read more »

SANDRA MURPHY BOUNCES BACK

July 15, 2016
THIS WEEK, fashion blogger and accomplished self-promoter, Sandra Murphy (“one of Ireland’s most fashionable women”) popped up on TV3 to shoot the breeze on... Read more »

‘TROPHY’ Dublin properties

July 15, 2016
WITH ‘TROPHY’ Dublin properties selling at increasingly inflated prices, the record for this year has been set by former Paddy Power boss Paddy Kennedy’s... Read more »

PRINCE KHALID’S IRISH STUD

July 2, 2016
WITH TRAINER Dermot Weld having completed the Epsom-Curragh Derby double last weekend with the Aga Khan’s Harzand, his bank balance will have got a... Read more »

SARA’S CULTURAL CREDENTIALS

July 2, 2016
BAR COUNCIL insider Sara Moorhead SC is busy these days working for the Dáil as a result of that case taken by Denis O’Brien... Read more »

THE SLATTERYS’ RETIREMENT HOME

July 2, 2016
THERE HAS been plenty of good news for former GPA hotshot Domhnal Slattery, who has been cashing in big time and, along with his... Read more »

PATRICK TREACY’S TAX BILL

June 17, 2016
ONE of the most interesting names to appear on the recent list of tax defaulters was that of Patrick Treacy, founder of the Ailesbury... Read more »

Dr Eva’s profits

June 17, 2016
RTÉ has just offloaded a number of programmes to Australian broadcaster SBS, one of which is the documentary Sugar Crash, fronted by celebrity health... Read more »

MODERNIST MOVES IN MONKSTOWN

June 17, 2016
AN UNUSUAL looking new building is creeping into view from behind the high walls at the junction of Seapoint Avenue and Albany Avenue in... Read more »

DERY DESMOND’S REVIEWS

June 1, 2016
WHILE Dermot Desmond has fingers in many pies, the food and drink business is not one associated with the moustachioed one. However, his youngest... Read more »

IN THE RED AT RESIDENCE

June 1, 2016
THE OWNER of private members club, Residence, on Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green – Olivia Gaynor-Long – continues to pump money into the struggling business... Read more »

BARRY’S BARGAIN AT LYONS

June 1, 2016
MEDIA SHY Barry O’Callaghan has swooped on the Village at Lyons, the restored Famine Village on the edge of the Lyons Demesne in Co... Read more »

RIVERDANCE PAIR’S PENTHOUSE

May 18, 2016
RTÉ chairman Moya Doherty and her hubby and Riverdance partner, John McColgan, have put their Howth pile, Dane’s Hollow, on the market for a... Read more »

JODIE RONAN’S HORSEPLAY

May 18, 2016
INTERESTING to see Jodie Ronan, daughter of Johnny ‘Buccaneer’ Ronan, popping up in the High Court in relation to one of daddy’s many legal... Read more »

IN THE ROUGH AT DRUID’S GLEN

May 18, 2016
THE HAPLESS members of Druid’s Glen Golf Club in Co Wicklow got a surprise last week when a vulture fund sought to appoint a... Read more »

GAY O’CALLAGHAN’S WINDFALL

May 5, 2016
IT LOOKS like big congratulations are in order for former banker Gay O’Callaghan, whose Morristown Lattin Bloodstock operation looks to have netted nearly €8m... Read more »

THE OTHER RICH LIST

May 5, 2016
THERE WAS plenty of fun reading through the Sunday Times annual ‘Rich List’, but Goldhawk was struck by some of the names not there... Read more »

DAVID RAETHORNE’S BIG PLANS FOR HAZELWOOD

April 21, 2016
THERE WAS some coverage in the business pages last week of the doubling in profits to E12m at Brentwood Investments Ltd, the private investment... Read more »

Niall Scott’s pad

April 21, 2016
THE write-up in The Irish Times for an impressive townhouse on Percy Place overlooking the Grand Canal was suitably effusive, given the €2.2m asking... Read more »

ANN REIHILL’S RETIREMENT

April 21, 2016
THE CHANGES continue at Image magazine, where Ann Reihill has now stepped down as a director of Image Publications Ltd, and has been replaced... Read more »