Article Category: High Society

JOHNNIE COOKE’S NEW BACKER

July 25, 2019

RESTAURATEUR Johnnie Cooke is expanding his empire again, this time with the opening of Juanito’s on trendy Drury Street, D2. Apparently, it is... Read more »

RACHAEL NAUGHTON’S ‘RETREATS’

July 25, 2019

RACHAEL NAUGHTON, daughter of Martin and Carmel Naughton of Glen Dimplex fame, has stepped down from the board of the Irish Undergraduate Awards... Read more »

CYNTHIA CHUA’S VIBRATIONS

July 11, 2019

IT’S INTERESTING to see that the colourful and loaded Cynthia Chua – who has recently been extolling the virtues of “perfuming your vejayjay”... Read more »

JUDY WOODWORTH’S BEIT STRATEGY

July 11, 2019

LAST MONTH saw the inaugural Kaleidoscope festival take place in the grounds of Russborough House in Co Wicklow. Given the positive feedback, it... Read more »

TARKA RUSSELL’S CREDENTIALS

June 27, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to young Tarka Russell, a glamorous addition to the board of the Glucksman art gallery in UCC. Having studied art history and... Read more »

YVETTE MONAHAN’S MOOLAH

June 27, 2019

THERE WAS a creditors’ meeting held in the offices of Outlook Accounts in Tallaght last week, which featured the winding up of a... Read more »

ROY BARRETT’S D4 PILE

June 12, 2019

A PROPERTY in the heart of Ballsbridge has just come on the market with a hefty €5.75m price tag. The impressive Ailesbury Road... Read more »

MORE MILLIONS FROM HORSEY SET

June 12, 2019

THE REOPENING (at last) of the revamped Curragh racetrack, complete with a brand new four-tiered stand was marked by some unexpected whistling noises... Read more »

FRANK AND THERESA McNAMARA’S ADVENTURES

May 29, 2019

THIS WEEK saw the return to court of the proceedings by a culture fund, Apollo Global, against one-time ‘celebrity’ couple Frank and Theresa... Read more »

JANE’S STRAY HORSES

May 29, 2019

A COMPANY called Animal Security Ltd has been quietly dissolved. The name may not be too familiar to readers, but it previously operated... Read more »

BELLA HUDDART’S SOFT PILLOWS

May 16, 2019

READERS OF The Irish Times were given a crash course this month in how to short-let a property by making it “stand out... Read more »

DAN MORRISSEY’S €5.5M PILE

May 16, 2019

IT’S NOT every day that a €5.5m house goes on the market in Co Dublin, but that is the case with the very... Read more »

DANIELLE RYAN AT CANNES

May 2, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Fantastic Films, which saw its Vivarium selected to compete at the snooty Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival.... Read more »

OFFLOADING LAURISTON

May 2, 2019

AN EDWARDIAN house on Ranelagh’s Park Drive (backing onto the playing fields of Gonzaga College) caught the eye of the Sindo last weekend,... Read more »

ANTHONY MCGRATH’S ANTIQUES

April 18, 2019

LAST WEEK’S popular Channel 4 series, 24 hours in Police Custody, featured one Anthony McGrath, an Irish-born orthopaedic surgeon with a “very privileged... Read more »

CATHERINE’S RICH RECIPES

April 18, 2019

NEXT MONTH ‘celebrity chef’ Catherine Fulvio dons her glad rags (Irish designers were frothing at the bit) and flies off to southern California... Read more »

LIZ OAKES’S EYEBROWS

April 4, 2019

AS BUSINESS ideas go, eco friendly water-based cremation is one certain to provoke interest. The woman behind the plan to bring this technology... Read more »

CIARÁN MURRAY’S HOUSES

April 4, 2019

IT WAS pointed out in The Irish Times recently that former Icon plc boss Ciarán Murray and his wife, Denise Ronan, managed to... Read more »

SPRING CLEAN AT LISSELAN HOUSE

April 4, 2019

A YEAR after Colette Twomey – the woman behind Clonakilty Black Pudding – snapped up the splendid Lisselan House outside Clonakilty, Co Cork,... Read more »

BERNIE BUTLER’S ENERGY BALLS

March 21, 2019

AT LAST week’s DMX Dublin marketing conference in the Aviva stadium, the great and good gave their tuppence worth, including the likes of... Read more »

KAREN’S WEDDING DATES

March 21, 2019

THE IRISH arm of a business that organises glamorous weddings in the port of Lindos on the sunny Greek island of Rhodes has... Read more »

ROSHEEN McGUCKIAN’S EXIT

March 21, 2019

THERE HAVE been changes at NTR’s charitable foundation, with NTR chief executive Rosheen McGuckian, who chaired the charity, stepping down last year. McGuckian... Read more »

LOSSES AT LISS ARD

March 7, 2019

HAVING FIRST gone on the market over two-and-a-half years ago, it is probably not surprising that the asking price for the sprawling Liss... Read more »

MYERSCOUGH’S WORKOUT

March 7, 2019

WITH THE campaign against the imposition of the top rate of VAT on health food supplements, it is not surprising that Jamie Myerscough... Read more »

McKILLEN’S ART WORK

March 7, 2019

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Paddy McKillen knows a bit about art and likes to spend some of his loose change acquiring works. He also has a... Read more »

RUTHIE H’S SKINNY TEA

February 21, 2019

SPARE A thought for super fit entrepreneur Ruth Hetherington, whose health and fitness brand of teas and coffees has fallen foul of the... Read more »

ALI BARKER’S DAY IN COURT

February 21, 2019

THERE WERE sighs of relief last week when a long-running, high-stakes legal action between a separated couple was settled after the opening day... Read more »

MARTIN JOYCE’S PILE

February 21, 2019

AN IMPRESSIVE pile in Sandymount D4, previously owned by TP McKenna, has gone on the market with a hefty €3m price tag. The... Read more »