Article Category: High Society

Tom Higgins’s Art Collection

June 15, 2017

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

JOHN CUNNINGHAM BACKS IMMA

June 15, 2017

THERE WAS good news for Sarah Glennie et al at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) last month when the director was... Read more »

HOLLY WHITE’S NUTTY HUBBY

June 15, 2017

LAST MONTH at Mount Juliet Hotel, TV presenter, stylist, blogger and general ‘It’ girl Holly White celebrated her marriage to Kildare moneybags Andrew... Read more »

THE TAN WAR

June 2, 2017

LAST WEEK, the Oirish Mail on Sunday highlighted a move by make-up/lifestyle blogger and cosmetics phenomenon, Suzanne Jackson “into Marissa’s patch” – claiming... Read more »

JAMIE to cut the FAT

June 2, 2017

THESE ARE unhealthy times for Jamie Myerscough, grandson of the late Vincent O’Brien (whose daughter Jane is married to former auctioneer Philip Myerscough... Read more »

BAD DREAMS IN CASTLE DURROW

June 2, 2017

THE OWNERS of Castle Durrow outside Abbeyleix – Peter and Shelly Stokes – will have been delighted with the puff piece in the... Read more »

BUYING BALLYMACOLL STUD

May 17, 2017

THE GREAT and the good of the bloodstock world will descend on Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel at the end of June when Ballymacoll Stud... Read more »

DRICO’S CONVERSION

May 17, 2017

A NEW planning application has just been submitted for the redevelopment of an impressive corner house on leafy Palmerston Road, Rathmines. The applicants... Read more »

PAUL SMITHWICK’S ROYAL CONNECTION

May 17, 2017

CONGRATULATIONS TO Paul Benedict Smithwick who was invited to the British ambassador’s residence at Glencairn to personally receive his Order of the British... Read more »

DAVID DAVIES’S IRISH HOME

May 3, 2017

THE LAUNCH last month of the glossy coffee table book Abbeyleix – An Irish Home and its Demesne (by Wiliam Laffan) took place... Read more »

PUBLIC LOLLY FOR DANIELLE RYAN

May 3, 2017

WHILE THE plans of Danielle Ryan to establish a luxury brands group continue to suck up funds from her overflowing coffers, the good... Read more »

WINDING UP ANNES GROVE ESTATE

April 19, 2017

THE TRUSTEES of Annes Grove Estate Co – which owns the impressive Annes Grove demesne and its famous garden in north Cork –... Read more »

Tadhg Campion’s Contacts

April 19, 2017

THE PLANNING row continues in Harcourt Terrace where low profile zillionaire Declan Ryan has just lost the latest round to equally media-shy auctioneer/property... Read more »

KATE GLEESON’S FASHION BUSINESS

April 19, 2017

FANS OF high profile boutique Kate Gleeson will not have been surprised at the splash given to her last weekend in the pages... Read more »

RATING THOSE RICH LISTS

April 5, 2017

WHILE IT is generally accepted that the so-called rich lists published by the Sunday Times and Sindo are of little real value to... Read more »

ANNA LIN’S WARDROBE

April 5, 2017

LOTS OF activity to report for Patrick and Anna Lin Parsons of Birr Castle – or Lord and Lady Oxmantown as they are... Read more »

CHANELLE McCOY’S FASHION SENSE

March 23, 2017

A THIRD woman set to join the judges in the new series of RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den and although probably best known today as... Read more »

PAUL McGUINNESS’S PARTNER

March 23, 2017

WITH the hype building nicely for Sky Atlantic’s upcoming big budget Cote d’Azur crime series Riviera – written by Neil Jordan and John... Read more »

The Taking of Christ

March 23, 2017

Although it happened at a time Which we now call Easter, Caravaggio’s colours are of Autumn, Walnut, chestnut, damson; Framed in a timeless... Read more »

IN SYNC WITH SAMANTHA LESLIE

March 9, 2017

SAMANTHA LESLIE, the woman who is the face of the impressive Castle Leslie in Co Monaghan, popped up in an Irish Times series... Read more »

Peter Gaynor’s Club

March 9, 2017

THE entry for Monte Carlo-based Olivia Gaynor-Long and hubby Brian Long in the latest Sunday Times Rich List guesstimates their wealth at an... Read more »

SHANE RYAN’S MANSIONS

March 9, 2017

AT LAST Shane Ryan has got around to lodging a planning application for his latest abode – the former French consulate on Ailesbury... Read more »

LADY JANE’S RARE WIN

February 23, 2017

A RULING by the Bowler Hats of the Turf Club last month saw a horse trained by Noel Meade disqualified and the race... Read more »

CYRUS’S INDIAN BATTLE

February 23, 2017

A MEMBER of the family of the richest Irish citizens is embroiled in a bruising battle to regain control of the huge Indian... Read more »

WESTPORT HOUSE’S €2M CHARGE

February 23, 2017

THE PURCHASE for a reported €10m of Westport House by Cathal Hughes and the rest of the Hughes clan has been welcomed in... Read more »

BIG BUCKS IN BEAUTY BUSINESS

February 9, 2017

INTERESTING to discover that Marissa Carter, the woman behind the very popular Cocoa Brown tanning product, is set to expand her burgeoning empire,... Read more »

LUCY NAGLE’S FASHIONABLE FIGURES

February 9, 2017

THE SINDO’s favourite designer, Lucy Nagle, got yet another plug last weekend when described by Barry Egan as, er, “the Goddess of the... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S PROFITS

February 9, 2017

ONE NAME that has popped up in the ongoing saga over the proposed sale of Walford to a Dermot Desmond family trust is... Read more »

DOMINIC WEST’S TAX PLANNING

January 25, 2017

YET MORE confusion at Glin Castle in Co Limerick, where the on-again off-again boutique hotel concept could be back on the cards. There... Read more »

Image magazine’s editorial strategy

January 25, 2017

INTERESTING TO see where the priorities lie at the glossy Image magazine these days. A Sunday Business Post interview with chief executive of... Read more »

MAY FRISBY’S NEW RECIPE

January 25, 2017

AFTER 27 years of operating Pasta Fresca on Chatham Street in Dublin 2, May Frisby’s restaurant has served up the last bowl of... Read more »

DANIELLE RYAN’S BUMPY ROADS

January 12, 2017

CHRISTMAS is when the bulk of perfumes is sold so it is perhaps not surprising that Danielle Ryan was making noises in the... Read more »

ADDING UP AT the beit foundation

January 12, 2017

THERE WAS good news for the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) last month when Heather Humphreys lobbed it a €250,000 grant. However it seems... Read more »

JOHN OSBORNE’S JOB

December 14, 2016

AFTER ALL the aggro at Horse Racing Ireland over the reappointment of Brian Kavanagh as chief executive for a third stint (see The... Read more »

“PERFECT 10” SARAH GILL

December 14, 2016

CONGRATULATIONS TO Sarah Gill, proprietor of the Seagreen fashion boutique in Monkstown, south County Dublin, who has developed an uncanny knack for attracting... Read more »