High Society Archives

THE MORANS’ SPLURGES

January 14, 2021

NOEL AND Valerie Moran’s latest acquisition – Knockdrin Castle and its 1,000 surrounding acres in Co Westmeath – is the latest in a... Read more »

MICHAEL CUSH’S EXIT

January 14, 2021

NO DOUBT, the chair of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI), legal eagle Mary Keane, was delighted with her Christmas pressie from culture... Read more »

ANNE HERATY’S BAD TIMING

December 16, 2020

THE AIR of scandal currently surrounding Gene Murtagh’s Kingspan must be generating a sense of déjà vu for the hapless Anne Heraty, the... Read more »

SAMMY’S REVIEWS

December 16, 2020

SAMMY LESLIE, the chatelaine of Castle Leslie in Co Monaghan, is celebrating being chosen as one of the winners of the Good Hotel... Read more »

KIERAN WHITE’S €5,000

December 16, 2020

MICHAEL O’FLYNN’S property development outfit earned some positive publicity last week with the announcement of the winners of the inaugural O’Flynn Group Heritage... Read more »

ROBERT O’BYRNE’S GEORGIAN DOC

December 3, 2020

THE COVER of the 2020 review from the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) features an Anthony Palliser painting of the society’s founder Desmond Guinness,... Read more »

JOHNNIE COOKE’S COSTLY DISH

December 3, 2020

IT LOOKS like the latest recipe tried out by ‘celebrity chef’ Johnnie Cooke has failed to hit the spot and his company is... Read more »

JAMIE’S FITNESS PROBLEM

December 3, 2020

ONE OF the sectors badly hit by the pandemic has been the gym business, with Nphet deciding that having a beautiful body is... Read more »

Catherine FitzGerald and hubby Dominic West declared that they were “very much still together” after the latter was snapped in a compromising situation. Thirty-year-old John Collison (below) is now worth €3bn.

ANNUAL 2020: BILLIONAIRES COME AND GO IN 2020

November 19, 2020

IRELAND started off the year with the news that we had the fifth-largest number of billionaires per capita behind Hong Kong, Cyprus, Singapore... Read more »

LISMORE CASTLE’S ARISTOCRATS

November 19, 2020

NICE TO see the vaunted Book of Lismore returning home. The priceless medieval manuscript has been donated to UCC and the good news... Read more »

THE KRAUSE FAMILY FRIEND

November 19, 2020

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with Mexican-English millionaire Allen de Jesus Sangines Krause (see The Phoenix 25/8/17), who is the squire of... Read more »

PAT’S PILE

November 19, 2020

A SALE price has been recorded in the Property Price Register of the Co Meath mansion owned by software moneybags Pat McDonagh and... Read more »

DANIELLE RYAN’S STYLISH COUSIN

November 5, 2020

NEXT MONTH will see the release in the US of the film Wild Mountain Thyme. It should coincide with the release of the... Read more »

VIP’S RED INK

November 5, 2020

THERE IS no end to the flow of stories about Irish ‘celebrities’ that feature in VIP magazine (this week: ‘Darren Kennedy talks cocktail... Read more »

OZZIE KHEIR’S COOLMORE COUP

November 5, 2020

IT’S NOT everyday that John Magnier’s Coolmore operation gets its eye wiped, but flash Australian racehorse owner Aziz ‘Ozzie’ Kheir earned a major... Read more »

PETER STAPLETON’S PRICE CUT

October 22, 2020

TOP REAL estate player Peter Stapleton has knocked a few bob off the asking price for his granite-clad ‘Old Vicarage’ Blackrock, Co Dublin.... Read more »

MARTIN NAUGHTON’S MOOLAH

October 22, 2020

WHAT A coincidence that a full page advert should appear in the Sunday Times last weekend on the same days as the paper... Read more »

CATHERINE FITZGERALD’S GARDEN GIG

October 22, 2020

THERE WAS plenty of excited media coverage last weekend of the relationship between Dominic West and his missus, Catherine FitzGerald, following the former’s... Read more »

NIALL McFADDEN’S OPTIMISM

October 8, 2020

AN IMPRESSIVE house on the Mount Juliet estate has gone on the market with a near E2m price tag. It turns out that... Read more »

MATT DEMPSEY’S HEADACHE

October 8, 2020

THE CHAIRMAN of the Irish National Stud (INS), Matt Dempsey, and his €140,000 pa chief executive, Cathal Beale, will have been chuffed at... Read more »

CHARLES COLTHURST’S NEIGHBOURS

October 8, 2020

THE SQUIRE of Blarney Castle, Charles St John Colthurst, has been kicking up about a proposed housing development not too far from his... Read more »

BARRY CONNOLLY’S BIG MOVE

September 24, 2020

INTERESTING TO see the name of Barry ‘Red Bull’ Connolly associated with one of the biggest residential property purchases of the year, in... Read more »

WAITING ON SHEIKH HAMDAN

September 24, 2020

ASSORTED RACEHORSE owners and breeders are unlikely to be looking forward to the upcoming sales season. The pandemic has obviously scuppered the chances... Read more »

MAURICE O’CONNELL’S SPIRIT

September 24, 2020

FEATURED IN the ‘My Favourite Room’ section of the Sindo’s Life magazine recently was the great great great-grand-nephew of Daniel O’Connell – one... Read more »

AMANDA PRATT’S RESTORATION

September 10, 2020

ODD TO see that Monkstown-based Amanda Pratt, formerly of Avoca, has just changed the name of her Irish company, Amanda Pratt Ltd, to... Read more »

RUTH MONAHAN’S TRIMMING

September 10, 2020

ALONG WITH the shifting of pints, another business feeling the pandemic pinch is flower selling, with a significant impact felt due to the... Read more »

STERN TIMES FOR ROMAN

September 10, 2020

WITH HOME holidays the flavour of the month, many Irish destinations have been packing in the punters. One destination that has opened its... Read more »

JACKIE HAIGH’S HOUSES

August 27, 2020

INTERIOR DESIGNER and art collector Jackie Haigh and her hubby, Adrian, have just put their Anglesea Road pile on the market, with an... Read more »

LISA MCGOWAN’S NEW VENTURE

August 27, 2020

THIS WEEK, the case featuring influencer Lisa McGowan of Lisa’s Lust List and Facebook Ireland was back in court, with McGowan seeking the... Read more »

MARK O’KEEFFE’S HOTLINE

August 27, 2020

THE IMPACT of the black economy on the hairdressing and make-up sector, post-Covid-19, is making itself felt as some stylists opt to quit... Read more »

SONYA LENNON’S QUALITY ASSURANCE

August 13, 2020

AN ARTICLE in the Irish Times last week highlighted the call for a state-backed quality assurance mark for entities that commit to making... Read more »

THE WINCKWORTHS’ CLOUDS

August 13, 2020

WHILE BUSINESSES continue to monitor the impact of Covid-19, the online sector has been best protected to date. A company that appears well... Read more »

GERARD MAGUIRE’S FINE WINE

August 13, 2020

GERARD MAGUIRE has just picked up a number of shares in his Almax Wines Ltd, the company behind the high-profile 64 Wine shop... Read more »

BERTRAM ALLEN’S CLEAR ROUNDS

July 30, 2020

WITH SPORT back on the agenda, it didn’t take long for young Bertram Allen to make his mark earlier this month, when he... Read more »

LONERGAN’S FIRST-CLASS TICKET

July 30, 2020

IT WAS reported in the Sunday Times at the weekend that securing the UN security council seat cost the taxpayer €850,000, with around... Read more »

PETER SAVILL’S PROPERTIES

July 30, 2020

INTERESTING to see that the Sunday Times report that a company called Chelverston Investments is the new registered owner of Gerald Kean’s Drayton... Read more »