Article Category: High Society

ARISE LADY MORRISON

February 11, 2016
THERE WAS plenty of coverage of rock legend Van Morrison receiving his knighthood from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace earlier this month. While Van... Read more »

RICH RICCI’S NEXT GAMBLE

February 11, 2016
THE COLOURFUL banker Rich Ricci has just been appointed chairman of the Irish bookmaking operation, Betbright. Best known on this side of the Irish... Read more »

FEARGAL O’ROURKE’S MANSION

February 11, 2016
WITH IRELAND’S Six Nations campaign underway, one man who will be paying particular attention to Joe Schmidt’s boys is ‘celebrity accountant’ Feargal O’Rourke, who... Read more »

DEREK O’LEARY’S ‘SYLVAN GEM’

January 28, 2016
HAPLESS property developer Derek O’Leary must have been delighted with the puff piece in the Sunday Business Post last weekend extolling the virtues of... Read more »

TYNTE PARK’S WINNERS AND LOSERS

January 28, 2016
INTERESTING to see the impressive Georgian pile, Tynte Park on 145 acres in Co Wicklow, coming back on the market with an asking price... Read more »

TOM HIGGINS’ SWISS STORY

January 13, 2016
WOULD-BE space cadet and former Irish Psychics Live phoneline operator Tom Higgins has reinvented himself in recent years as an art dealer of sorts.... Read more »

GERALDINE KARLSSON’S HIGH NOTES

January 13, 2016
AS PREDICTED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 18/12/15), the finances at Wexford Festival Opera (WFO) are taking on the proportions of a tragedy. Maybe... Read more »

SHUTTING THE STABLE DOOR

January 13, 2016
WHILE THERE has been good news for Coolmore Stud Down Under (see p23), John Magnier et al continue to expend considerable energy ensuring that... Read more »

SONIA ROGERS’S TRIPLE WHAMMY

December 17, 2015
THERE WAS good news for Sonia Rogers and her boys at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale recently, when they managed to shift three nags... Read more »

THE RYANS HAVE ARRIVED

December 17, 2015
INTERESTING to see that Shane Ryan is the mystery buyer of the former French consulate on leafy Ailesbury Road in D4. When the mansion... Read more »

COOLMORE’S CENSORS

December 17, 2015
MORE ON the book that Squire John Magnier wants banned. Solicitors for Coolmore Stud have been contacting book stores warning them that legal action... Read more »

THE FLYING VETS

December 4, 2015
THERE WAS good news last month for veterinary couple and owners of Swordlestown Little Stud in Co Kildare – Des Leadon and Mariann Klay... Read more »

THE OTHER COOLMORE STUD BOOK

December 4, 2015
A CONTROVERSIAL book written by William Jones, an ex-employee of Coolmore Stud, is causing quite a stir inside Irish racing and has already attracted... Read more »

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S ARTISTIC CREDENTIALS

December 4, 2015
INTERESTING to see Newstalk radio reporting that the purchasers of one of the Beit collection paintings are John and Bernie Gallagher of Doyle Hotels... Read more »

JOHN FARRINGTON’S SATISFACTION

November 20, 2015
CONGRATULATIONS to Drury Street antique jeweller John Farrington, who did rather well out of the sale of contents of his Capard House pile. He... Read more »

SEAMUS ROSS JR SELLS UP AGAIN

November 20, 2015
THERE WAS plenty of coverage of the impressive Georgian house on Wellington Place in the heart of Dublin 4 which came on the market,... Read more »

ACCOUNTING FOR LOUISE KENNEDY

November 20, 2015
FASHION designer Louise Kennedy must have been delighted with the puff piece in the Sunday Business Post last month, where she outlined her plans... Read more »

FOUR FAULTS FOR JAMES BUCKLEY

November 6, 2015
THE PURCHASE of the former Jessbrook equestrian centre outside Johnstownbridge in Co Kildare – originally built by the notorious John Gilligan – has not... Read more »

ATALANTA POLLOCK’S WIND PROBLEM

November 6, 2015
SPARE A thought for the Pollock family and their Mountainstown House outside Navan, Co Meath. After being in the same family for 250 years,... Read more »

RICHARD WOOD’S TAX BILL

November 5, 2015
FORMER BULA Mines director Richard Wood has just come a cropper with the Taxman and finds himself on the end of a judgment for... Read more »