Article Category: High Society

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S PLUG

November 15, 2023

PIPPA O’CONNOR is expanding her empire with a new range of cosmetics and she must have been delighted with the drooling profile in... Read more »

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JACQUELINE HALL’S CULTURAL CREDENTIALS

November 15, 2023

SO IT’S welcome to the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) for Jacqueline Hall, public relations hot shot and daughter of former Fine Gael matriarch... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: HIGH SOCIETY – 2023: MONEY AND INFLUENCE

November 15, 2023
AS ALWAYS, the year features an awful lot of people spending an awful lot of money and, in many cases, a large chunk ended... Read more »

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COUNT KAZ AND THE REFUGEES

November 2, 2023
THE LOW-profile loaded Count Kazimierz ‘Kaz’ Balinski-Jundzill raised his head last week to challenge a plan by the state to house 950 Ukrainians on... Read more »

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RACHEL FLYNN’S CHOCOLATE DROP

November 2, 2023

In August last year, Hilliard Lombard and David McKernan’s food investment firm, BiaVest, pumped €700,000 into Nobó, the vegan ice cream and chocolate... Read more »

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SIMON KILROY’S EXOTIC FISH

October 19, 2023

ONE OF the most expensive properties to come on the market in recent times is Rarc-an-Ilan, sitting on 0.6 acres of prime Dalkey... Read more »

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ALAN CLANCY’S GLASS HOUSE

October 19, 2023

IT HAS been an eventful 12 months for nightclub and bar owner Alan Clancy, who started off the year by marrying Jacqueline Given,... Read more »

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PETER GLEESON’S PILE

October 5, 2023

THE LATEST multimillion-euro pile to come on the market is Melfort on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4. This turns out to be the... Read more »

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FEMALE ARTISTS

October 5, 2023

THE NATIONAL Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has expanded its collection through the acquisition of Rachel Ruysch’s ‘Vase of Flowers with an Ear of... Read more »

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CHARLIE CULLEN’S SWISS CHRONOGRAPHS

October 5, 2023

NO DOUBT Charlie Cullen was delighted with the plug for the Swiss Watch Club in the Sunday Times last month. Unfortunately, the article... Read more »

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ALI CURRAN’S NEW GIG AT IMMA

September 21, 2023

ALI CURRAN is now in situ as chair of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) following a small hiatus when there was... Read more »

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CHANTILLY SPACE

September 21, 2023

AN IMPRESSIVE pile has gone on the market in Rathmichael, Co Dublin, with a chunky €4.65m price tag. It turns out to be... Read more »

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MARISSA CARTER’S ‘RETURN’

September 7, 2023

THE SUNDAY Times reported at the weekend that Marissa Carter is “back at the helm” of her Cocoa Brown fake tan operation, although... Read more »

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CIRCLING FITZWILLIAM SQUARE

September 7, 2023

THERE HAS been some activity at the rather exclusive Fitzwilliam Square Association (FSA), where a couple of new locals have landed on the... Read more »

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SHARON KEEGAN’S SUPPORTERS

August 24, 2023

LAST MONTH Goldhawk’s favourite athleisure wear seller, Sharon Keegan of Peachylean, gave her tuppenceworth on succeeding in business in an online discussion with... Read more »

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TOM HIGGINS’S COUNTDOWN

August 24, 2023

NO DOUBT, after the high-profile launch of Virgin Galactic’s (VG) first ever batch of private space tourists earlier this month, Irish space cadet... Read more »

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PETER WHITE’S PROPERTIES

August 24, 2023
A VERY lengthy renovation project on leafy Wellington Road in D4 has finally concluded. The impressive pile was most closely associated with businessman and... Read more »

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MARY AIKEN’S NEIGHBOURS

August 10, 2023
INTERESTING TO see that concert promoter extraordinaire Peter Aiken and his wife, Mary, are suing their Howth neighbours, Moya Doherty and John McColgan and... Read more »

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ANN’S CHINESE PUZZLE

August 10, 2023

THE IMPRESSIVE Cambridge House on Cambridge Road in Rathmines has come on the market with a €3.5m price tag. Until recently, this late... Read more »

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NEIL JORDAN’S PLOT

August 10, 2023

FILMMAKER TURNED novelist Neil Jordan has been generating plenty of media hype for his latest buke, The Well of Saint Nobody. He might... Read more »

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LAURA BONNER’S BACKERS

July 27, 2023

INTERESTING TO see that legal eagle Joseph O’Malley has joined the board of Laura Bonner’s much-hyped booze operation, Muff Liquor Company (MLC). This... Read more »

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BROWNSTOWN’S PANAMA PARENT

July 27, 2023

A PIECE in last weekend’s Business Post puffed up the sprawling Brownstown Regency estate outside Navan, Co Meath, which has just come on... Read more »

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WAITING AT EXPANDING IMMA

July 27, 2023

WITH IMMA boosting its collection courtesy of some munificence from arts minister Catherine Martin, there will be an expanded collection waiting for the... Read more »

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OONAGH’S INCOME SUPPLEMENT

July 13, 2023
GOLDHAWK SPOTTED his favourite ‘celebrity pharmacist’, Oonagh O’Hagan, giving very informed tips in the Indo to hapless readers for the best way to deal... Read more »

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PAUL WARD’S MOVIE PLOT

July 13, 2023

THERE HAS been plenty of activity on Irish Multiplex Cinemas Ltd (IMC) since that legal spat between Paul Ward and his equally minted... Read more »

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MORE COLLISON MILLIONS IN ABBEYLEIX

July 13, 2023
IT WON’T come as too much of a surprise to hear that the 2021 acquisition of Abbeyleix House by John Collison has seen the... Read more »

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BILL SHIPSEY’S DALKEY BALCONY

June 29, 2023

A SPRAWLING pile atop a hill in Dalkey has gone on the market with a €4.75m price tag. The owners turn out to... Read more »

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VARIETY JONES’S TASTY DISH

June 29, 2023

THE TWO boys behind the highly regarded Variety Jones restaurant in D8 must have been delighted to see half of page 3 in... Read more »

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BRIAN COTTER’S SWAN NECK

June 29, 2023

MEDIA-FRIENDLY Brian Cotter – who along with sibling James constitute the self-styled ‘Botox Brothers’ – generated yet more publicity last week when featuring... Read more »

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JENNY KEANE’S SEXUAL REVOLUTION

June 15, 2023

SPARE A thought for the assorted boring, traditional sexual health therapists operating in Ireland, who must be a little jealous of the remarkable... Read more »

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CASHING IN ON CHATHAM ST

June 15, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to spy that a company called Dtat Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, who have scooped a fair... Read more »

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EARL OF TYRONE’S TIPPLE

June 15, 2023

IT WAS reported last weekend in the Business Post that one Henry de la Poer Beresford, who happens to be the 9th Marquess... Read more »

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PETER GAYNOR SELLS UP

June 1, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that the spacious Rembrandt House at 1 Longford Terrace in Monkstown is on the market with a tasty... Read more »

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KIESWETTERS HAPPY TO STUMP UP

June 1, 2023

IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that horseracing is for those with deep pockets. The latest figures from the South African-owned Barnane Stud... Read more »

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EATHOS’S EXPANDING WAISTLINE

June 1, 2023

GOLDHAWK SPIES from his perch that a third upmarket Eathos cafe has opened on the stretch from Lower Baggot Street to Upper Baggot... Read more »

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YVONNE DEENEY’S DES RES

May 18, 2023

IT WAS reported by the Sunday Times earlier this month that Natalia Sutherland – daughter of former Goldman Sachs chairman Peter ‘Suds’ Sutherland... Read more »

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