Article Category: High Society

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 of... 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 Sunday... 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 Empire... 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 comes... 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 are... 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 in... 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 news... 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 – have... 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 consultant... 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 of... 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 those... 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 now... 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 the... 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 Banville... 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 proscenium... 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 on... 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 impressive... 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 Road.... 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 awarded... 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 Tata... 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 Co... 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, as... 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 gansey”... 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 that... 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 may... 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 Image... 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 spaghetti... 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 the... 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 run-up... 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 glowing... 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 Phoenix... Read more »

OLIVER PEYTON’S HUMBLE PIE

December 14, 2016
SURPRISING TO see such silence this side of the Irish Sea on the recent trials and tribulations of London restaurateur, TV personality and high... Read more »

GREG BRODERICK’S GIFT HORSE

December 1, 2016
HAVING BEEN the subject of much negative comment when he headed off to Rio to compete (unsuccessfully) in the Olympics on board wonder horse... Read more »

Shane Ryan’s moolah

December 1, 2016
THERE HAS been much focus in recent months on the high flying activities of Declan Ryan whose airline investments have been generating soaring returns.... Read more »

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S PROFITS

December 1, 2016
IN THE goldfish bowl that is Ireland, celebrity couples are the big thing now with the likes of Rosanna Davison and Wesley Quirke (Wesanna)... Read more »