Article Category: High Society

Dave Power’s Curragh bet

July 27, 2017
David and Sabena Power INTERESTING to see money-bags bookmaker David Power, who holds a valuable stake in the Paddy Power Betfair group, deciding to... Read more »

Dómhnal Slattery’s des res

July 27, 2017
Domhnal Slattery THESE ARE busy times for aviation millionaire Dómhnal Slattery of Avolon aircraft leasing. The moneybags is preparing to move into Ouragh, the... Read more »

CYNTHIA CHUA’S PROPERTY PLAY

July 13, 2017
GOLDHAWK was most impressed with the audacious scheme drawn up by the owners of the Deepwell mansion in Blackrock, south County Dublin, involving the... Read more »

Strancally Wedding

July 13, 2017
IT IS probably not surprising that there was little coverage of one of the high society weddings of the year – that of Portia... Read more »

BIDDING FOR BALLYMACOLL

July 13, 2017
ALTHOUGH NOT confirmed, the name of Frank Dunne of Dunnes Stores fame is doing the rounds as the buyer of Ballymacoll Stud (which neighbours... Read more »

PETER GAYNOR’S GOOD DEAL

June 29, 2017
IT LOOKS like the hapless Olivia Gaynor Long has taken a serious bath in the Residence private members club at 41 St Stephen’s Green.... Read more »

PETER WHITE’S NEW NEIGHBOURS

June 29, 2017
AN IMPOSING late Georgian style house on the corner of Wellington Road and Elgin Road in the heart of Ballsbridge has just gone on... Read more »

JODIE RONAN’S NUPTIALS

June 29, 2017
NO SURPRISE to see the Sindo gushing about the wedding of Jodie Ronan – daughter of developer Johnny Ronan and Mary Ronan – to... 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 able... 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 Wynne.... Read more »

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 sorts.... 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 that... 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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »