Article Category: High Society

POSH SPICE AND ALI HEWSON

July 12, 2018

ACROSS THE Irish Sea, Victoria Beckham’s fashion retail outfit has been running up big bills, resulting in slashed prices. Back in Ireland, there... Read more »

KIESWETTER V O’BRIEN

July 12, 2018

WHILE COVERAGE of the Irish Derby weekend at The Curragh was dominated by the exploits of brothers Joseph and Donnacha O’Brien there was... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S HAPPY FAMILY

July 12, 2018

A NEW planning application has been submitted for Fintragh, one of a number of houses on Shrewsbury Road that has changed hands over... Read more »

JACK BRABAZON GETS IN THE GROOVE

June 28, 2018

PRESUMABLY Anthony Brabazon and his wife, Fionnuala (aka Lord and Lady Ardee) were delighted with the glowing coverage of Killruddery House in the... Read more »

MR JANET JACKSON’S IRISH INTERESTS

June 13, 2018

IT WAS reported earlier this month that marketing company iZest, set up by Jennifer Taaffe, had scooped a €1m investment from a Qatari... Read more »

ZONING IN ON CASTLETOWN HOUSE

June 13, 2018

WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland topped the list of free visitor attractions in the Republic last year, No 2 was the impressive... Read more »

MARTIN NAUGHTON’S CHEQUEBOOK

May 31, 2018

TRINITY COLLEGE Dublin is once again the beneficiary of a handout from philanthropist Martin Naughton, who has been pumping money into assorted causes... Read more »

JOHN HOURICAN’S CONTROVERSIAL OLIGARCH

May 31, 2018

THE LATEST revelations in the US about Robert Mueller’s investigation into links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin focus on Russia’s fourth wealthiest... Read more »

WEDDING DATE

May 17, 2018

WITH MEDIA interest in the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wedding nearing fever pitch, plenty of filler articles on the “wedding season” have... Read more »

NATHALIE DAURIAC’S COURT DATE

May 17, 2018

AT THE start of this month, a ruling was issued following a High Court battle in London that has grabbed the attention of... Read more »

NO DANCING AT THE DYLAN

May 3, 2018

ONE OF the more high profile celebrity haunts in Dublin 4 is the “boutique” Dylan Hotel off Upper Baggot Street, developed in the... Read more »

WHERE THERE’S MUCK THERE’S BRASS

April 19, 2018

A HUGE spread in Delgany, Co Wicklow, featured in the Sunday Times earlier this month, with the price tag for Castlefield House coming... Read more »

DYLAN McGRATH’S SHARE OF THE ACTION

April 5, 2018

ONE TIME “bad boy of haute cuisine”, former Masterchef presenter Dylan McGrath, is preparing to open his latest venture, this time in Ballsbridge... Read more »

Stormy Daniel’s ride

April 5, 2018

FOR A man who likes to keep a low profile, Wicklow event horse dealer Richard Sheahan sure knows how to pick the owners.... Read more »

FIONA FITZPATRICK’S “COLONIAL LIFE”

April 5, 2018

THERE was plenty of gushing prose to be found in last week’s Irish Times’s property write-up for the Dargle Lodge estate in Enniskerry,... Read more »

NEW LOOK HERITAGE TRUST

March 22, 2018

THE POSITION of chief executive of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) is about to be filled following an advertising process. It will be... Read more »

Judy Woolworth’s “public confidence”

March 22, 2018

NO DOUBT Judy Woodworth and the board of the Alfred Beit Foundation were delighted with the big spread on Russborough House in The... Read more »

BELINDA STRUDWICK’S BIG BILLS

March 22, 2018

THE RACING of thoroughbred horses is a notoriously expensive game that only the wealthy can afford to play. One such moneybags is English... Read more »

WILL STATE ACQUIRE LUGGALA?

March 8, 2018

WITH Garech de Brún’s Wicklow pile, Luggala, still for sale for a whopping E28m (not including the €550,000 stamp duty) over a year... Read more »

ALISON DOODY’S NEW ROLE

March 8, 2018

INTERESTING to see the name Alison Doody O’Reilly appear among the cast of the callover list for Cork’s Circuit Court hearings, which features... Read more »

DERMOT CANTILLON’S BITCOINS

March 6, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Dermot Cantillon and the gang at Tinnakill House stud for their marketing coup of offering a two-year-old colt for four bitcoins.... Read more »

Alistair Tidey’s sale

February 22, 2018

AN IMPRESSIVE house on Merrion Square has gone on the market with a hefty €3.5m price tag, although it looks like the owners... Read more »

TICKLED PINK IN AVOCA

February 22, 2018

ACCORDING TO a puff piece by Sean Gallagher in the Sindo last weekend, social media and selfies have led to a boom for... Read more »

Serious Profits

February 22, 2018

WITH THE death of Alan Potts last year and Rich Ricci becoming more cautious with his spending, there was a worry that the... Read more »

Markus Jooste’s expensive colts

February 8, 2018

THE DISGRACED South African moneybags Markus Jooste continues to liquidate his vast string of thoroughbreds, with four select mares that he owned in... Read more »

PAUL SMITHWICK’S NEW INVESTOR

February 8, 2018

THE ARRIVAL to the O’Sullivan Craft Brewery (1702) shareholder register of Irish Stock Exchange chairman Padraic O’Connor is a vote of confidence for... Read more »

Horsey Hubbies

January 25, 2018

INTERESTING TO see that the directors of a company called Hollymount Bloodstock Ltd have decided to wind up their operation, which has a... Read more »