Article Category: High Society

KATE VERLING’S BAD TIMING

March 26, 2020

THE TIMING of beauty business entrepreneur Kate Verling’s recent announcement that her Mink salon is investing a whopping €½m “in an expansion programme”... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S FOXROCK VILLA

March 26, 2020

WHILE SELLING substantial properties at the moment looks like a pretty tall ask, there are a few prime properties that have recently come... Read more »

THE DESMONDS IN DUBLIN 4

March 12, 2020

NOT SURPRISINGLY, billionaire Dermot Desmond’s cunning plan to fix the housing problem attracted plenty of attention, including a fawning interview on Radio 1... Read more »

MARK O’NEILL’S NEW TAX BILL

March 12, 2020

IT LOOKS like artist Mark O’Neill has been just a little careless, given that he has ended up on the list of tax... Read more »

JAMIE’S OFFSHORE RECIPE

February 27, 2020

THERE WAS mixed news on the restaurant front this month. Following a spate of high-profile closures in January, Derry and Sallyanne Clarke announced... Read more »

MR JANET JACKSON’S IRISH INVESTMENTS

February 27, 2020

INTERESTING TO see the Sunday Times reporting that the latest international personality to sue Facebook in Dublin is Qatari moneybags Wissam Al Mana,... Read more »

DOMINI KEMP’S MENU CHANGE

February 13, 2020

IT HAS been hard to pick up a magazine or TV listings supplement in recent weeks without reading about the new television series... Read more »

FFRENCH O’CARROLL’S D4 PILE

February 13, 2020

A DISTINCTIVE pile on Wellington Place in the heart of Dublin 4 being plugged in the property supplements should attract plenty of interest,... Read more »

DR EVA’S PRISON

January 30, 2020

FANS OF health guru Dr Eva Orsmond have presumably been glued to the TV on Sunday nights to watch Dr Eva’s Great Escape,... Read more »

FIONA McHUGH’S OTHER INVESTOR

January 30, 2020

WITH THE denizens of leafy Dublin 6 still mourning the passing of their beloved Fallon & Byrne supermarket – sorry, food hall –... Read more »

ADRIAN BLANC’S FOXROCK PILE

January 30, 2020

IF THE last couple of years were bad ones for Foxrock-based suit Adrian Blanc (also known as Adrian Le Blanc), 2020 hasn’t got... Read more »

SOPHIE CAFOLLA’S BABY BOXES

January 16, 2020

AN ARTICLE in the Sunday Times business section last weekend featured advice for small businesses, with one of the players featured being Sophie... Read more »

NEW FACES AT IMMA

January 16, 2020

THERE ARE some vacancies to be filled on the board of Imma that should appeal to culture vultures out there. The vacancy that... Read more »

FOUR FAULTS IN CONNAUGHT

January 16, 2020

THERE WERE fun and games last week at a specially convened (and ultimately especially heated) meeting of the Connaught region of Showjumping Ireland... Read more »

EDEN ONE VS PERPETUA

December 12, 2019

THE LULULEMON-sporting gym bunnies in D4 will be excited at the news that January 15 has been set as the date for the... Read more »

GREG O’GORMAN’S NEW HURDLE

December 12, 2019

PRESUMABLY, members of the O’Gorman family will be hoping for a quiet 2020 now that the High Court family spat is well behind... Read more »

SIMONE ROCHA’S PERFECT WEEKEND

November 28, 2019

LONDON-BASED Irish fashion designer Simone Rocha popped up in the Financial Times’s super glossy ‘How to Spend it’ supplement last weekend to reveal... Read more »

ABDULAZIZ’S PHOENIX FIASCO

November 28, 2019

FANS OF the turf will have been fascinated by the Racing Post revelation that the founder of the Phoenix Thoroughbreds ‘regulated fund’, Amer... Read more »

PIERRE LE BROCQUY’S GRIPE

October 31, 2019

THE ROW over RTÉ’s decision to offload some artworks, most famously two by Louis le Brocquy, rumbles on. It is not surprising to... Read more »

JESS RYAN’S BEAUTY BUSINESS

October 31, 2019

EARLIER THIS year one of Ireland’s top retailers, Arthur Ryan – the power behind Penneys/Primark – passed away. His daughter, the glamorous Jess... Read more »

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S BEST LIFE

October 16, 2019

IT HAS been a busy few weeks for ubiquitous model-turned-blogger-turned-designer Pippa O’Connor, social media sensation and wife of TV presenter Brian Ormond. She... Read more »

DAVID RAETHORNE’S ‘FABULOUS’ HOUSE

October 16, 2019

THE INDO went to town in its property supplement last week, gushing about Brentwood House in Dundrum, Co Dublin, which is on the... Read more »

JUERG VON GEITZ’S ROLEX

October 3, 2019

AN INTERESTING set of proceedings has just been initiated in the Circuit Court featuring Dublin financier Juerg von Geitz and the long-established Dawson... Read more »

LIZ BALBIRNIE’S INTERIOR DESIGN

October 3, 2019

PROPERTY PORN continues to prove popular at RTÉ, where such programmes proliferate the airwaves. At the top of the tree is surely Home... Read more »