Article Category: High Society

ROBBIE DOLAN’S EXTRAVAGANT VILLA

July 25, 2024

A FEW weeks after first going on the market with a hefty €4.5m price tag, the opulent 8,500 sq ft Villa Barton in... Read more »

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RAY MORAN’S TURNTABLE

July 11, 2024

A DECISION is due shortly from the planners in Dublin City Council on an application for the retention of an unusual “vehicular turntable”... Read more »

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AUBREY’S AWARD

July 11, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO millionaire and philanthropist Aubrey McCarthy, who has just been awarded an honorary lifetime membership of the RDS. This pat on the... Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S MIXED FORM

July 11, 2024

IT HAS been a successful but mixed couple of weeks for John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and the rest of the loaded... Read more »

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NEVILLE EAGER’S ASCOT OUTING

June 27, 2024

THERE WAS significant success in Royal Ascot last week for the syndicate owners of a horse called Crystal Black, which is trained by... Read more »

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SUCCEEDING MARY KEANE AT THE NGI

June 27, 2024

NEXT MONTH marks the end of the term of Mary Keane as chairwoman of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI). The vacancy should... Read more »

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DEEP D4 PROPERTY POCKETS

June 27, 2024

DEVELOPER Joe O’Reilly must be delighted with the Irish Times giving a plug to his swanky Lansdowne Place apartment scheme in Ballsbridge. The... Read more »

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DECLAN RYAN SELLS UP

June 13, 2024

THERE WAS a glowing write-up at the weekend in the Business Post for an impressive-looking house on Harcourt Street in Dublin 2, now... Read more »

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EVANS BEVAN’S ESTATE

June 13, 2024

HAVING ACQUIRED the impressive Fortwilliam Estate on 400 acres outside Lismore, Co Waterford, just over a decade ago for almost €8m, the wonderfully... Read more »

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JOHN BYRNE SADDLES UP

June 13, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS TO moneybags horse owner John Byrne, who has ended up in the saddle at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board as senior steward... Read more »

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MARTIN KELLY’S €8M MANSION

May 30, 2024

LOADED TYPES looking for a secluded but glamorous property within striking distance of Dublin will have noted the recent advertising for a cool... Read more »

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COOLMORE CREW’S CASH

May 30, 2024

ASSORTED IRISH racehorse owners featured prominently on the recent UK Sunday Times ‘Rich List’ and those with Coolmore connections were to the forefront.... Read more »

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KEEPING IT ZIPPED AT ‘VIP’

May 30, 2024

THE USUAL suspects (sorry, “the country’s best dressed fashionistas”) were out in force at the Irish InterContinental Hotel in D4 last month for... Read more »

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KEEPING UP WITH THE CURRANS

May 16, 2024

THERE WAS plenty of glowing prose in the Irish Times earlier this month when the property section extolled on the myriad attractions of... Read more »

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META OSBORNE’S FAMILIAR GOING

May 16, 2024

IRISH NATIONAL Stud (INS) boss Cathal Beale has secured approval from agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue and public enterprise and reform minister Paschal Donohoe... Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S SILAGE

May 2, 2024

JOHN MAGNIER, obviously not thwarted by the previous rejection of his acts of generosity towards his “strapped for cash” Co Tipperary neighbours, Richard... Read more »

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JOHNNY RONAN’S PARK

May 2, 2024

FITZWILLIAM SQUARE was in the news again last month when the Irish Times wondered if the proposed sale by receivers of Johnny Ronan’s... Read more »

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DES McGAHAN’S BOLTHOLE BLUES

May 2, 2024

GOLDHAWK SPIED yet another glowing report in the Business Post on the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale, which is on the market for... Read more »

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MARK GALLAGHER’S €10M MANSION

April 18, 2024

THE ADVERTISING by Sherry FitzGerald of a redbrick pile on leafy Ailesbury Road, with a cool €10m price tag, not surprisingly marks the... Read more »

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AINTREE ANTICS

April 18, 2024
WHILE ZILLIONAIRE Geneva tax resident JP McManus won his third Aintree Grand National last Saturday, with the Willie Mullins-trained I am Maximus, it was... Read more »

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SUSAN O’REILLY’S ‘APPARITION’

April 18, 2024
A “STUNNING beachfront house hovering over the water in Howth” has attracted a lot of attention over the last week. The unusual structure was... Read more »

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CORRECTING CHRISTINE DAVIES

April 4, 2024

THERE WAS some bad news for the glamorous Christine Jane Davies, owner of the sprawling Ballybla House and estate outside Ashford in Co... Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S CEREMONY

April 4, 2024

THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) has just published its annual report for 2023, showing income of €270,000, the majority of which... Read more »

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KILLIAN POYNTON’S HIGH NET WORTH CLIENTS

April 4, 2024

GREEN BIRD Ltd, a company catering to the needs of so-called “high net worth individuals”, has found itself on the end of a... Read more »

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ROSS LEWIS’S RICH DISH

March 21, 2024

AS USUAL, there was plenty of speculation last month ahead of the Michelin restaurant awards that Dublin’s swanky Chapter One might land a... Read more »

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PEDRO DE AZAMBUJA’S DOUBLE FAULTS

March 21, 2024

WITH AN asking price of no less than €5.5m, the Georgian Kilquade Hill House outside Greystones in Co Wicklow is one of the... Read more »

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JOHN MOREHART’S WILDFOWL

March 21, 2024

JOHN MOREHART, squire of the splendid Bellamont House and its 1,000 acres outside Cootehill, Co Cavan, has been getting busy again. It will... Read more »

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JOHN MOREHART’S ‘REMEDY’

March 7, 2024

HAVING PURCHASED the splendid Palladian mansion Bellamont House, which stands on a thousand acres outside Cootehill in Co Cavan, Yank lawyer John Morehart... Read more »

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BACKING DERMOT SMURFIT

March 7, 2024

NO DOUBT Dermot Smurfit – son of Dermot Smurfit Snr and nephew of Monaco-based Mick Smurfit – was happy with the Indo’s positive... Read more »

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DAVID SHARKEY’S €1.7M DISCOUNT

March 7, 2024

AN ADVERT from Sherry FitzGerald on the front page of the Irish Times property section last month featured a rather nice-looking pile called... Read more »

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‘DONATING’ MARIAN KEYES

February 22, 2024

HUGELY SUCCESSFUL scribbler Marian Keyes was “bowled over” following the commissioning by the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) of her portrait, which was... Read more »

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JACK CANTILLON’S ‘RE-IMAGINING’

February 22, 2024

“THIS ISN’T the same old boring news of a stallion retiring, this is a re-imagining of what a stallion deal should look like... Read more »

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CATCHING UP IN BRITTAS

February 22, 2024

INTERESTING TO see a truckload of documents filed in the Companies Registration Office (CRO) in recent months relating to Ballinacarrig Park Club (BPC),... Read more »

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NOT SO SUPERJET

February 8, 2024

GOLDHAWK SPIES a creditors’ meeting has been called for Superjet Leasing Private Ltd, a company where the director is Indian moneybags Jayvaradhan ‘Jay’... Read more »

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CHARITY BEGINS OFFSHORE

February 8, 2024

BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES – and fellow Swiss tax residents – JP McManus and John Magnier have been making headlines for their charitable deeds. It... Read more »

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HENRY GWYN-JONES’S HOUSE

February 8, 2024

THERE HAS been plenty regurgitation of the Irish Examiner’s scoop that UK billionaire James Dyson is set to acquire the impressive Ballynatray House... Read more »

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