Article Category: High Society

David Blackburn’s property problem

August 10, 2017

Lisselan House THERE HAVE been few more startling property price drops than that associated with the magnificent Lissellan House and estate outside Clonakilty... Read more »

Brittany Mason in Trump’s footsteps

August 10, 2017

Brittany Mason and Steven Patach READERS OF last weekend’s Sindo were treated to an article featuring the glamorous new promoter of Miss Universe... Read more »

KATE HYDE’S HAPPY PARTNERS

July 27, 2017

Kate Hyde CONGRAULATIONS to Kate Hyde, the woman behind the high profile henparty.ie brand, who was the first Irish businesswoman to be invited... Read more »

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... 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,... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 –... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 –... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »