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DECLAN RYAN’S VERANDA

November 17, 2022
PLANNING PERMISSION has just been granted to a little-known company to add a veranda to the multimillion-euro former abode of the Brazilian ambassador on... Read more »

PADDY’S CHOCOLATE ADVENTURE

November 17, 2022
HAVING SURPRISINGLY branched into the confectionery business with the purchase of Skelligs Chocolates, Paddy McKillen Jnr will be hoping to shift lots of ‘Chocolate... Read more »

ANNUAL 2022: HIGH SOCIETY – INFLUENCERS AND LIMITLESS DRIPS IN 2022

November 17, 2022
IN A YEAR dominated by the war in Ukraine, energy fears and rampant inflation, it was refreshing to see that the other half continued... Read more »

LIZ OAKES’S RESOMARIUM

November 2, 2022
YOU’VE GOT to hand it to eyebrows queen Liz Oakes – the multi-talented businesswoman sure knows how to generate media attention. In the last... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S SHORTLIST

November 2, 2022
AS THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) hits the one-year mark for limping along with a board full of ministerial vacancies, the good news... Read more »

THE MORANS’ RETENTIONS AND LOSSES

November 2, 2022
RACEHORSE-LOVING Noel and Valerie Moran have continued to splash their cash, with a new hotel in Co Meath their most recent undertaking. It turns... Read more »

DANIELLE RYAN’S LATEST FOUNDATION

October 19, 2022
GOLDHAWK was interested to come across an outfit called The Form Foundation, which turns out to be the latest arty incarnation for busy actor,... Read more »

BRENDAN’S BLING

October 19, 2022
LAST MONTH Blanchardstown shopping centre got a taste of bling when cosmetics entrepreneur Brendan McDowell shipped in the 2022 Love Island bombshell winner, the... Read more »

RACHEL FLYNN’S SWEET DEAL

October 19, 2022
INTERESTING TO see a filing in the Companies Office showing that food investment firm BiaVest pumped €700,000 into former Vogue magazine digital marketing exec... Read more »

ANGELA SCANLON’S MANY HATS

October 6, 2022
WITH A new season of Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything returning to RTÉ, potential audience members have been asked to submit application forms. A... Read more »

Peter McKenna Tradition Now National Concert Hall Board

NCH’S NEW TUNE

October 6, 2022
THE POPULAR Tradition Now bi-annual traditional musical series returns to the National Concert Hall (NCH) this month and will feature some big names, including... Read more »

JP MCMAHON’S VIEW

October 6, 2022
THE ALWAYS opinionated chef and restaurateur JP McMahon has been cooking up a new business structure, having incorporated two new companies. Although he is... Read more »

BEN DUNNE’S SHRINKING COLLECTION

September 22, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS TO the wily James Gormley et al at Gormley’s Fine Art on Dublin’s South Frederick Street, the boys scored quite the coup by... Read more »

ASH QUINN MOVES ON

September 22, 2022
INTERESTING TO see the Sunday Times reporting on a move by glamorous Ash Quinn, daughter of footballer-turned-businessman Niall, to become a senior exec at... Read more »

DAVID MURRAY’S TWO HOUSES

September 22, 2022
THERE WAS a predictably glowing profile in the Irish Times last week of Ingleside, a large five-bedroom house on the corner of Brennanstown Road... Read more »

BRENDAN McCABE’S PRICEY PADDOCK

September 8, 2022
THE LATEST ‘super-prime’ property to come on the market is the impressive Paddock Wood pile on Killiney Hill Road, famously formerly owned by the... Read more »

PAMELA LAIRD’S MOXIE

September 8, 2022
PAMELA LAIRD, a former star of both the Irish version of Dragon’s Den and Alan Sugar’s version of The Apprentice, is rarely far from... Read more »

PATRICK GUINNESS’S AQUACULTURE

September 8, 2022
INTERESTING TO see that an aquaculture company called A Harvest Industry Ltd (AHI) has gone into liquidation. AHI was incorporated in December 2016 and... Read more »

ROSIE CONNOLLY’S NEW FRIENDS

August 25, 2022
ALTHOUGH barely a year in existence, influencer Rosie Connolly’s new fashion brand has attracted some unlikely funders. Given that one of them is Tommy... Read more »

LORRAINE KEANE’S BATHROOMS

August 25, 2022
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see two pages devoted to Lorraine Keane’s Monkstown pile in the Sunday Times last weekend. Three years after the impressive... Read more »

JIM BOLGER’S SAUDI SALE

August 25, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS ARE yet again in order to wily racehorse trainer Jim Bolger, who has managed to offload one of his nags for what must... Read more »

NEW WOMAN AT THE GALLERY

August 11, 2022
AT LONG last the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has got around to appointing its new €130,000 pa director. It is perhaps not surprising... Read more »

Robert O'Byrne Left Without a Handkerchief

LAFFAN V O’BYRNE

August 11, 2022
PRESUMABLY THE tweedies in the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) were suitably entertained by a scathing review in the Sunday Times of Robert O’Byrne’s book... Read more »

CONSUELO’S REIGN

August 11, 2022
SO IT’S farewell then to Consuelo O’Connor, who has just officially stepped down from the board of the Beit Foundation, a whopping 46 years... Read more »

Dublin International Piano Competition 2022

JOHN O’CONOR’S EXIT

July 28, 2022
IN THE year of his 75th birthday, John O’Conor has finally called it a day as a director of the Dublin International Piano Competition... Read more »

AL NABOODAH’S GOLF BUDDIES

July 28, 2022
WITH THE hoopla surrounding the pro-am golfing tournament, hosted by JP McManus at his Adare Manor having died down, it is interesting to note... Read more »

THE WINCKWORTHS’ SLEEPING PARTNERS

July 28, 2022
COLOMBIA-BASED entrepreneur-cum-singer Rebecca Winckworth was presumably delighted with the recent glowing profile in the Sindo ‘Life’ magazine, headlined “Tangoing through Life”. The article waxed... Read more »

CYNTHIA CHUA’S ‘VULVA-VERSE’

July 14, 2022
IT’S INTERESTING to see that the colourful and loaded Cynthia Chua – who has long been extolling the virtues of “vulva facials” – has... Read more »

KAY MULCAIRE’S ADARE BOUNCE

July 14, 2022
THERE WAS plenty of predictable drooling by the hacks over the two-day JP McManus Pro-Am golfing extravaganza at the Geneva “tax resident’s” Adare Manor... Read more »

CIAN’S FOUR STARS

June 30, 2022
Showjumping royalty Cian O’Connor has pulled out all the stops with his upgraded ‘state of the art’ equestrian centre in Co Meath. It certainly... Read more »

AIDEEN’S SUNNY ASPECT

June 30, 2022
LEESON PARK is one of the more exclusive roads around Dublin 6, featuring handsome and spacious three-storey Victorian piles, a couple of which are... Read more »

JOHN GIVEN’S GAFF

June 30, 2022
FORMER GOODBODY and Philip Lee heavy hitter John Given has added another string to his bow, with KPMG hiring him to head its legal... Read more »

ALEX CONYNGHAM’S LUXURY YURTS

June 16, 2022
THERE HAS been plenty of media exposure recently for Alex Conyngham, aka Lord Alexander Burton Conyngham, aka Earl of Mount Charles, thanks to his... Read more »

JERRY PADIAN’S PATENTS

June 16, 2022
GOLDHAWK RECENTLY reported on the appointment to the board of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) of Blueshirt politician-turned-lobbyist Avril Doyle. Another interesting name to... Read more »

SEÁN DAVIN SELLS UP

June 16, 2022
A MOST impressive pile on Raglan Road in the heart of Dublin 4 has gone on the market with an eye-popping price tag of... Read more »

KIRSTEN RAUSING’S STUDS

June 2, 2022
THE SUNDAY TIMES’S UK edition still publishes its annual ‘Rich List’, while the Irish version called it a day a couple of years ago.... Read more »