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Robert O'Byrne Left Without a Handkerchief

LAFFAN V O’BYRNE

August 11, 2022

PRESUMABLY THE tweedies in the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) were suitably entertained by a scathing review in the Sunday Times of Robert O’Byrne’s... Read more »

CONSUELO’S REIGN

August 11, 2022

SO IT’S farewell then to Consuelo O’Connor, who has just officially stepped down from the board of the Beit Foundation, a whopping 46... Read more »

Dublin International Piano Competition 2022

JOHN O’CONOR’S EXIT

July 28, 2022

IN THE year of his 75th birthday, John O’Conor has finally called it a day as a director of the Dublin International Piano... Read more »

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AL NABOODAH’S GOLF BUDDIES

July 28, 2022

WITH THE hoopla surrounding the pro-am golfing tournament, hosted by JP McManus at his Adare Manor having died down, it is interesting to... Read more »

THE WINCKWORTHS’ SLEEPING PARTNERS

July 28, 2022

COLOMBIA-BASED entrepreneur-cum-singer Rebecca Winckworth was presumably delighted with the recent glowing profile in the Sindo ‘Life’ magazine, headlined “Tangoing through Life”. The article... Read more »

CYNTHIA CHUA’S ‘VULVA-VERSE’

July 14, 2022

IT’S INTERESTING to see that the colourful and loaded Cynthia Chua – who has long been extolling the virtues of “vulva facials” –... Read more »

KAY MULCAIRE’S ADARE BOUNCE

July 14, 2022

THERE WAS plenty of predictable drooling by the hacks over the two-day JP McManus Pro-Am golfing extravaganza at the Geneva “tax resident’s” Adare... Read more »

CIAN’S FOUR STARS

June 30, 2022

Showjumping royalty Cian O’Connor has pulled out all the stops with his upgraded ‘state of the art’ equestrian centre in Co Meath. It... Read more »

AIDEEN’S SUNNY ASPECT

June 30, 2022

LEESON PARK is one of the more exclusive roads around Dublin 6, featuring handsome and spacious three-storey Victorian piles, a couple of which... Read more »

JOHN GIVEN’S GAFF

June 30, 2022

FORMER GOODBODY and Philip Lee heavy hitter John Given has added another string to his bow, with KPMG hiring him to head its... Read more »

ALEX CONYNGHAM’S LUXURY YURTS

June 16, 2022

THERE HAS been plenty of media exposure recently for Alex Conyngham, aka Lord Alexander Burton Conyngham, aka Earl of Mount Charles, thanks to... Read more »

JERRY PADIAN’S PATENTS

June 16, 2022

GOLDHAWK RECENTLY reported on the appointment to the board of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) of Blueshirt politician-turned-lobbyist Avril Doyle. Another interesting name... Read more »

SEÁN DAVIN SELLS UP

June 16, 2022

A MOST impressive pile on Raglan Road in the heart of Dublin 4 has gone on the market with an eye-popping price tag... Read more »

KIRSTEN RAUSING’S STUDS

June 2, 2022

THE SUNDAY TIMES’S UK edition still publishes its annual ‘Rich List’, while the Irish version called it a day a couple of years... Read more »

CHANELLE MCCOY’S NEW ARRIVALS

June 2, 2022

PRESUMABLY, CHANELLE – sorry Lady – McCoy will be paying close attention to a High Court challenge initiated by a Co Waterford retailer... Read more »

CHRISTOPHER BIELENBERG’S MANY HOMES

June 2, 2022

WITH SUMMER approaching, Goldhawk perused the predictable extended plug for the sprawling Sandbrook House in Co Carlow, the sometimes abode of Christopher Bielenberg... Read more »

MYERSCOUGH’S WORK-OUT

May 19, 2022

DOCUMENTS JUST filed in the Companies Office records a different ownership structure in Jamie Myerscough’s Vitruvian Fitness operation than had been registered. Previously,... Read more »

RAYMOND STANLEY’S SPREAD

May 19, 2022

AN IMPRESSIVE Victorian pile in Cabinteely in south Co Dublin has come on the market with a price tag of €2.75m. Although owned by... Read more »

THE ASHMANS’ BOTTOM DRAWER

May 19, 2022

IAN AND VICKY Ashman, a couple of loaded English corporate solicitors who swapped legal briefs for the skimpy ones when they set up... Read more »

CHETWYND-TALBOT’S TROUBLES

May 5, 2022

OH DEAR, Goldhawk is rather taken aback that his esteemed and noble friend Charlie Talbot is in a spot of bother over his... Read more »

IRISH TIMES CHOICES

May 5, 2022

THE INCREASINGLY eclectic selection of personalities for the obituary page of the Irish Times saw a thousand words devoted last month to one... Read more »

SELLING SLEVOIR HOUSE

May 5, 2022

A CO Tipperary pile is on the market with a hefty asking price. It has had some interesting previous owners, some of whom... Read more »

NOELLE O’CONNOR’S GLOW

April 20, 2022

THIS MONTH is the first in which online and e-commerce sales of fake tanning (sorry, self-tanning) products are subject to new EU regulations... Read more »

MAKING MONEY WITH JAMIE AND LAUREN

April 20, 2022

A NICE looking Dublin 6 pad, at 65 Ranelagh Road, got the full sales pitch from the Business Post earlier this month. It... Read more »

AVRIL DOYLE’S NEW GIG

April 18, 2022

THE WORTHIES on the board of the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT) have just been joined by the Wexford-based former Fine Gael MEP turned... Read more »

JOHN MAGNIER’S SCONES

April 7, 2022

IT IS unlikely that John Magnier spends too much time on social media but presumably one of his flunkies informed the Squire of... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S ITALIAN PARTNER

April 7, 2022

LAST WEEKEND, the Business Post wrote about an interview given by Dermot Desmond to the luxury lifestyle magazine Robb Report, in which Der... Read more »

DINNY’S HOTEL BILL

March 24, 2022

BILLIONAIRE Denis O’Brien’s campaign to help several Caribbean countries to seek slavery reparations from former colonial powers was highlighted in the Sunday Times... Read more »

JOHN O’CONOR’S RED MENACE

March 24, 2022

IT IS perhaps not surprising in the current climate that organisations should be scrambling to display their anti-Putin credentials but the decision by... Read more »

ANNAMARIE FEGAN’S SMOOTH SAILING

March 24, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for Crosshaven sailor Annamarie Fegan, who has been voted in as the first female vice-admiral in three centuries of... Read more »

LAURA WHITMORE’S PURPOSE

March 10, 2022

IT LOOKS like bolshy blonde broadcaster Laura Whitmore had a hectic International Women’s Day, with an interview for something called the Executive Institute... Read more »

MAYCOCK’S MANY HATS

March 10, 2022

WHILE FORMER justice minister Michael McDowell is probably the most interesting name connected to The Currency media site courtesy of his loan to... Read more »

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D6 ‘BARGAIN’

March 10, 2022

A VICTORIAN five-bedroom detached house on leafy Temple Road in Rathgar has just been sold albeit at a significant discount to the asking... Read more »

DAMIEN GREY’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

February 24, 2022

THERE WAS the usual banquet of media hype last week, following the release of the names of those restaurants that picked up new... Read more »

JOE DONNELLY’S BETS

February 24, 2022

IT’S THAT time of the year again, when the name of low-profile former bookie Joe Donnelly, now two decades in self-imposed exile, starts... Read more »

BRETT DESMOND’S ‘BOOST’

February 21, 2022

THE UPMARKET burger chain run by Dermot Desmond’s scions considers itself a notch above the competition. Dishing out expensive burgers has proved, however,... Read more »