Article Category: High Society

NATIONAL GALLERY’S NEW FACES

February 9, 2023

GOLDHAWK HAD been getting curious about whether arts and culture minister Catherine Martin was ever going to get around to appointing the four... Read more »

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BRENDAN McDOWELL’S £2M DIVIDEND

January 26, 2023

NO DOUBT cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell is glued to the latest series of Love Island, given his company’s marketing links to some of... Read more »

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JOHN O’CONOR’S SUCCESSOR

January 26, 2023

WHILE PIANIST John O’Conor is currently delivering his residency at the Glen Gould School of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory, the hunt is on back... Read more »

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SIOBHAN’S BANSHEE WEBINAR

January 26, 2023

MAYBE IT’S because Sunday Times editor Nóirín Hegarty previously worked for Lonely Planet but readers will have noticed a tendency of stories in... Read more »

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MICHAEL HEFFERNAN’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

January 12, 2023

THERE HAVE been some changes in the business portfolio of Michael Heffernan, son of Dunnes Stores boss Margaret, with the businessman having checked... Read more »

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JACKY TEHAN’S PROMOTION

January 12, 2023

THERE HAVE been some changes at the Roche family’s investment company, where Jacky Flavin Tehan has moved into the hot seat. Flavin Tehan... Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S MASTERPIECE

January 12, 2023

IN JUST eight weeks an export ban will expire on the famous Sir Joshua Reynolds masterpiece, Portrait of Omai, which has been the... Read more »

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LINDA STINSON’S COMPETITION

December 15, 2022

RTÉ HAS been keeping the red tops suitably topped up with the drip-feed of details about the array of ‘talent’ set to feature... Read more »

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FAIRYTALE WEDDING

December 15, 2022

THE OIRISH Mail on Sunday was eager to plug the “fairytale wedding” of TV presenter Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile and moneybags Alan Maloney. Readers... Read more »

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CHRISTINE DAVIES’S ‘VISION’

December 15, 2022

THE FORMER Squire of Abbeyleix House, David Davies – president of the Irish Georgian Society – sold his listed Co Laois demesne to... Read more »

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MY NAME IS KASIA

December 1, 2022

NO DOUBT Katarzyna ‘Kasia’ Gaborec-McEvoy was delighted with the latest lengthy plug her upmarket handbag company received in the Business Post last month,... Read more »

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PAUL SHEERAN’S PLANS

December 1, 2022

THERE’S BEEN plenty of publicity in recent weeks for jeweller Paul Sheeran, who has been expanding on all fronts. Well established in the... Read more »

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CHAPTER ONE’S NEW CHAPTER

December 1, 2022

THE WINDING-UP of a company called Lindley Ltd has just taken place, marking an ‘official’ end to the original Ross Lewis-fronted Chapter One... Read more »

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PIPPA O’CONNOR’S POT STILL

November 17, 2022

THE RELENTLESS expansion of Pippa O’Connor Ormond’s business interests has continued in the form of a move into the vodka game. Having signed... Read more »

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DECLAN RYAN’S VERANDA

November 17, 2022

PLANNING PERMISSION has just been granted to a little-known company to add a veranda to the multimillion-euro former abode of the Brazilian ambassador... Read more »

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PADDY’S CHOCOLATE ADVENTURE

November 17, 2022

HAVING SURPRISINGLY branched into the confectionery business with the purchase of Skelligs Chocolates, Paddy McKillen Jnr will be hoping to shift lots of... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: HIGH SOCIETY – INFLUENCERS AND LIMITLESS DRIPS IN 2022

November 17, 2022

IN A YEAR dominated by the war in Ukraine, energy fears and rampant inflation, it was refreshing to see that the other half... Read more »

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LIZ OAKES’S RESOMARIUM

November 2, 2022

YOU’VE GOT to hand it to eyebrows queen Liz Oakes – the multi-talented businesswoman sure knows how to generate media attention. In the... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S SHORTLIST

November 2, 2022

AS THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) hits the one-year mark for limping along with a board full of ministerial vacancies, the good... Read more »

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THE MORANS’ RETENTIONS AND LOSSES

November 2, 2022

RACEHORSE-LOVING Noel and Valerie Moran have continued to splash their cash, with a new hotel in Co Meath their most recent undertaking. It... Read more »

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DANIELLE RYAN’S LATEST FOUNDATION

October 19, 2022

GOLDHAWK was interested to come across an outfit called The Form Foundation, which turns out to be the latest arty incarnation for busy... Read more »

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BRENDAN’S BLING

October 19, 2022

LAST MONTH Blanchardstown shopping centre got a taste of bling when cosmetics entrepreneur Brendan McDowell shipped in the 2022 Love Island bombshell winner,... Read more »

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RACHEL FLYNN’S SWEET DEAL

October 19, 2022

INTERESTING TO see a filing in the Companies Office showing that food investment firm BiaVest pumped €700,000 into former Vogue magazine digital marketing... Read more »

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ANGELA SCANLON’S MANY HATS

October 6, 2022

WITH A new season of Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything returning to RTÉ, potential audience members have been asked to submit application forms.... Read more »

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NCH’S NEW TUNE

October 6, 2022

THE POPULAR Tradition Now bi-annual traditional musical series returns to the National Concert Hall (NCH) this month and will feature some big names,... Read more »

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JP MCMAHON’S VIEW

October 6, 2022

THE ALWAYS opinionated chef and restaurateur JP McMahon has been cooking up a new business structure, having incorporated two new companies. Although he... Read more »

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BEN DUNNE’S SHRINKING COLLECTION

September 22, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS TO the wily James Gormley et al at Gormley’s Fine Art on Dublin’s South Frederick Street, the boys scored quite the coup... Read more »

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ASH QUINN MOVES ON

September 22, 2022

INTERESTING TO see the Sunday Times reporting on a move by glamorous Ash Quinn, daughter of footballer-turned-businessman Niall, to become a senior exec... Read more »

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DAVID MURRAY’S TWO HOUSES

September 22, 2022

THERE WAS a predictably glowing profile in the Irish Times last week of Ingleside, a large five-bedroom house on the corner of Brennanstown... Read more »

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BRENDAN McCABE’S PRICEY PADDOCK

September 8, 2022

THE LATEST ‘super-prime’ property to come on the market is the impressive Paddock Wood pile on Killiney Hill Road, famously formerly owned by... Read more »

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PAMELA LAIRD’S MOXIE

September 8, 2022

PAMELA LAIRD, a former star of both the Irish version of Dragon’s Den and Alan Sugar’s version of The Apprentice, is rarely far... Read more »

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PATRICK GUINNESS’S AQUACULTURE

September 8, 2022

INTERESTING TO see that an aquaculture company called A Harvest Industry Ltd (AHI) has gone into liquidation. AHI was incorporated in December 2016... Read more »

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ROSIE CONNOLLY’S NEW FRIENDS

August 25, 2022
ALTHOUGH barely a year in existence, influencer Rosie Connolly’s new fashion brand has attracted some unlikely funders. Given that one of them is Tommy... Read more »

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LORRAINE KEANE’S BATHROOMS

August 25, 2022

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see two pages devoted to Lorraine Keane’s Monkstown pile in the Sunday Times last weekend. Three years after the... Read more »

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JIM BOLGER’S SAUDI SALE

August 25, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS ARE yet again in order to wily racehorse trainer Jim Bolger, who has managed to offload one of his nags for what must... Read more »

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NEW WOMAN AT THE GALLERY

August 11, 2022

AT LONG last the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has got around to appointing its new €130,000 pa director. It is perhaps not... Read more »

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