Article Category: High Society

FIONA FITZPATRICK’S “COLONIAL LIFE”

April 5, 2018
THERE was plenty of gushing prose to be found in last week’s Irish Times’s... Read more »

NEW LOOK HERITAGE TRUST

March 22, 2018
THE POSITION of chief executive of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) is about to... Read more »

Judy Woolworth’s “public confidence”

March 22, 2018
NO DOUBT Judy Woodworth and the board of the Alfred Beit Foundation were delighted... Read more »

BELINDA STRUDWICK’S BIG BILLS

March 22, 2018
THE RACING of thoroughbred horses is a notoriously expensive game that only the wealthy... Read more »

WILL STATE ACQUIRE LUGGALA?

March 8, 2018
WITH Garech de Brún’s Wicklow pile, Luggala, still for sale for a whopping E28m... Read more »

ALISON DOODY’S NEW ROLE

March 8, 2018
INTERESTING to see the name Alison Doody O’Reilly appear among the cast of the... Read more »

DERMOT CANTILLON’S BITCOINS

March 6, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to Dermot Cantillon and the gang at Tinnakill House stud for their marketing... Read more »

Alistair Tidey’s sale

February 22, 2018
AN IMPRESSIVE house on Merrion Square has gone on the market with a hefty... Read more »

TICKLED PINK IN AVOCA

February 22, 2018
ACCORDING TO a puff piece by Sean Gallagher in the Sindo last weekend, social... Read more »

Serious Profits

February 22, 2018
WITH THE death of Alan Potts last year and Rich Ricci becoming more cautious... Read more »

NIAMH PATTEN’S VALENTINE’S OFFER

February 8, 2018
READERS OF The Irish Times were presented with an offer last week to buy... Read more »

Markus Jooste’s expensive colts

February 8, 2018
THE DISGRACED South African moneybags Markus Jooste continues to liquidate his vast string of... Read more »

PAUL SMITHWICK’S NEW INVESTOR

February 8, 2018
THE ARRIVAL to the O’Sullivan Craft Brewery (1702) shareholder register of Irish Stock Exchange... Read more »

Horsey Hubbies

January 25, 2018
INTERESTING TO see that the directors of a company called Hollymount Bloodstock Ltd have... Read more »

DAVID RAETHORNE’S WHISKEY DRINKERS

January 25, 2018
THE AMBITIOUS project being undertaken in Sligo by low-profile serial investor David Raethorne got... Read more »

Peter Gaynor changes Residence

January 25, 2018
ALTHOUGH IT is hard to be surprised at any acquisition by Paddy McKillen jnr’s... Read more »

Patrick Annesley’s “gift”

January 11, 2018
INTERESTING TO read an interview in The Irish Times at the end of last... Read more »

Magnier and Jooste

January 11, 2018
THE DRAMATIC fall from grace of South African billionaire Markus Jooste should come as... Read more »

ARISE SIR DOMINICK

January 11, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS are due to former British ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott, who was given... Read more »

MICK SMURFIT’S STATUE

December 14, 2017
GOLDHAWK is pleased to report that the striking statue of Mick Smurfit that emerged... Read more »

DINNY’S GERMAN COUNT

December 14, 2017
IT WAS reported last week that Denis O’Brien’s Caribbean based telecoms operation, Digicel, is... Read more »

Simone Rocha’s seasonal boost

December 14, 2017
THE CHRISTMAS shopping frenzy should help further boost the overflowing coffers of London-based fashion... Read more »

Bloodstock Money

November 30, 2017
GOOD NEWS for bloodstock breeder Dermot Cantillon and his missus, Meta Osborne, outgoing Turf... Read more »

STERN’S EXPENSIVE ESTATE

November 30, 2017
THERE IS still no sign of a buyer for the €7.5m Liss Ard estate... Read more »

Anne Anderson’s new role

November 30, 2017
THERE have been some comings and goings at Druid Theatre in Galway. The good... Read more »

CROWDING OUT CASTLETOWN HOUSE

November 2, 2017
THESE ARE anxious times at the impressive 18th century Castletown House in Co Kildare,... Read more »

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S NEXT RECORD

November 2, 2017
THERE WAS, not surprisingly, acres of copy churned out praising the impressive feat achieved... Read more »

STAR GAZING AT BIRR CASTLE

October 19, 2017
THERE IS plenty of excitement in Birr Castle at the arrival of a brand... Read more »

Hanby Sale

October 19, 2017
ONE OF the more impressive properties to come on the Dublin market this year... Read more »

COLM TÓIBÍN’S WINDFALL

October 19, 2017
THE ULTIMATE networker, Colm Tóibín was recently installed as chancellor of the University of... Read more »

Windfarm upsets Gianni Forte

October 5, 2017
A HIGH COURT ruling last week by Judge Robert Haughton represented a potentially very... Read more »

torres retreats to sunnier climes

October 5, 2017
A COUNTY Kildare stud near Maynooth is to go to auction at the Carton... Read more »

Wedding Bling

September 21, 2017
AFTER a scaling back caused by the economic recession, those Celtic Tiger style bling... Read more »