High Society Archives

JANE TRENAMAN’S OPERA ROLE

May 20, 2021

THE LATEST arrival on the board of the National Opera House is Jane Trenaman, daughter of Shrewsbury Road moneybags Fred Trenaman. No doubt,... Read more »

MARK O’KEEFFE’S TANGLES

May 6, 2021

DUBLIN STYLIST Mark O’Keeffe of Brown Sugar was given some space in the Sindo’s ‘Life’ magazine last month to hype up the hairdressing... Read more »

WISSAM’S GOOD PANDEMIC

May 6, 2021

QATARI MONEYBAGS Wissam Al Mana’s case against Facebook Ireland and a number of other defendants is back in the High Court next week.... Read more »

JOHN MALONE’S BREEDING BILLS

May 6, 2021

THE BREEDING of thoroughbred horses is an expensive business, though this is not the sort of thing to concern the excruciatingly wealthy owner... Read more »

LARS BJOERK’S LIECHTENSTEIN LOANS

April 22, 2021

THE FORMER owners of Dollanstown Stud in Co Meath have moved to strike off the company behind the operation. It is clear that... Read more »

HELEN McALINDEN’S BOTTOM LINE

April 22, 2021

EVERY SO often, Irish fashion designers pop up in the media with some words of wisdom for the locals. The latest to take... Read more »

FRAGRANT FAREWELL

April 22, 2021

SO FAREWELL then International Cosmetic & Fragrances (ICF), part of the cosmetics business developed here by German businessman Claus Michel. The move to... Read more »

MARY KEANE’S NEW JOB

April 8, 2021

CONGRATUALTIONS TO Mary Keane, the chair of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI), who has just landed the sought-after job of director general... Read more »

NOELLE MAGUIRE’S IRFU RUCK

April 8, 2021

A RATHER nice pile on Zion Road in Rathgar, D6, is now on the market, with the owners looking for a tasty €2.65m.... Read more »

TOM GLEESON’S BURGERS

April 8, 2021

THE COMPANY behind the highly profitable burger chain, Bunsen, has issued High Court proceedings to block Dublin City Council from interfering with its... Read more »

LADY MARY’S £42M SALE

March 25, 2021

ACROSS THE Irish Sea, trouble is brewing for billionaire industrialist Sanjeev Gupta, whose massive steel empire is creaking, with demand for the product... Read more »

GUY O’CALLAGHAN’S NEW STUD

March 25, 2021

THE SALE of a prime stud property on the Curragh sees the blueblood O’Callaghan bloodstock clan adding another asset to the empire. The... Read more »

IN THE BUNKER AT DRUIDS GLEN

March 25, 2021

WHILE IRELAND’S golf fairways are quiet, there is plenty of action at Druids Glen resort in Co Wicklow where a former member, Niall... Read more »

BILL SHIPSEY’S ART WORK

March 11, 2021

CAMPAIGNING BARRISTER Bill Shipsey, long associated with the Irish section of Amnesty International (which he chaired at one stage,) got a few things... Read more »

WARRING WARD FAMILY’S PLOT TWIST

March 11, 2021

THE WEALTHY Ward family, which owns Dublin’s Savoy cinema among many others, is engaged in another legal wrangle that sees the principals named... Read more »

PADDY MCKILLEN’S GALLERIES

March 11, 2021

ART LOVING moneybags Paddy McKillen was splashing the cash recently, when adding a super expensive art gallery to his 540-acre Chateau La Coste... Read more »

NEVEN MAGUIRE’S NEW RECIPE

February 25, 2021

WITH THE ubiquitous celebrity chef Neven Maguire on screen with the rerun of his ‘Spanish Trails’ series, there has been some corporate tidying... Read more »

HELEN TURKINGTON’S PROPERTY PLAY

February 25, 2021

THE PROPERTY section of the Irish Times featured a big spread on a ‘boutique eight property scheme’ in Terenure, D6, with the four-... Read more »

KARON’S ZEN APPROACH

February 25, 2021

The “extraordinary” 10,000 sq ft ‘Ananda’ in Killiney, Co Dublin, is some spread and apparently viewers will be forgiven “for thinking it’s the... Read more »

CONN CLISSMANN’S CHARGES

February 11, 2021

A LEGAL challenge brought by some local residents in south Co Dublin has put a spanner in the works for the developers behind... Read more »

JUDY WOODWORTH’S NEW FACES

February 11, 2021

THERE WAS some relief in Russborough last week when the High Court ruled in favour of the Judy Woodworth-chaired Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF),... Read more »

WHAT NEXT FOR JUDDMONTE?

February 11, 2021

THE DEATH of Prince Khalid Abdullah Abdulrahman last month at the age of 83 will have been noted by racing fans who had... Read more »

JOHN POWER’S NEW HAT

January 28, 2021

THERE HAVE been a couple of new riders introduced on the board of the Curragh Racecourse Ltd, including Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) senior... Read more »

NOEL McMAHON’S PENTHOUSE

January 28, 2021

SOME PROPERTIES that went on the market during the pandemic have been receiving a second round of media plugs, using the lockdown theme... Read more »

MICHEAL MAUGHAN’S EXIT

January 28, 2021

GOLDHAWK NOTES that moneybags Michael Maughan has stepped down from the board of the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, where there... Read more »

DERMO’S CARIBBEAN COMPETITION

January 14, 2021

SHORTLY BEFORE Christmas, an article in the Sunday Times extolled the virtues of basing yourself in the sunny Caribbean to avoid much of... Read more »

THE MORANS’ SPLURGES

January 14, 2021

NOEL AND Valerie Moran’s latest acquisition – Knockdrin Castle and its 1,000 surrounding acres in Co Westmeath – is the latest in a... Read more »

MICHAEL CUSH’S EXIT

January 14, 2021

NO DOUBT, the chair of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI), legal eagle Mary Keane, was delighted with her Christmas pressie from culture... Read more »

ANNE HERATY’S BAD TIMING

December 16, 2020

THE AIR of scandal currently surrounding Gene Murtagh’s Kingspan must be generating a sense of déjà vu for the hapless Anne Heraty, the... Read more »

SAMMY’S REVIEWS

December 16, 2020

SAMMY LESLIE, the chatelaine of Castle Leslie in Co Monaghan, is celebrating being chosen as one of the winners of the Good Hotel... Read more »

KIERAN WHITE’S €5,000

December 16, 2020

MICHAEL O’FLYNN’S property development outfit earned some positive publicity last week with the announcement of the winners of the inaugural O’Flynn Group Heritage... Read more »

ROBERT O’BYRNE’S GEORGIAN DOC

December 3, 2020

THE COVER of the 2020 review from the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) features an Anthony Palliser painting of the society’s founder Desmond Guinness,... Read more »

JOHNNIE COOKE’S COSTLY DISH

December 3, 2020

IT LOOKS like the latest recipe tried out by ‘celebrity chef’ Johnnie Cooke has failed to hit the spot and his company is... Read more »

JAMIE’S FITNESS PROBLEM

December 3, 2020

ONE OF the sectors badly hit by the pandemic has been the gym business, with Nphet deciding that having a beautiful body is... Read more »

Catherine FitzGerald and hubby Dominic West declared that they were “very much still together” after the latter was snapped in a compromising situation. Thirty-year-old John Collison (below) is now worth €3bn.

ANNUAL 2020: BILLIONAIRES COME AND GO IN 2020

November 19, 2020

IRELAND started off the year with the news that we had the fifth-largest number of billionaires per capita behind Hong Kong, Cyprus, Singapore... Read more »

LISMORE CASTLE’S ARISTOCRATS

November 19, 2020

NICE TO see the vaunted Book of Lismore returning home. The priceless medieval manuscript has been donated to UCC and the good news... Read more »