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Irish Independent
05-05-2025
- General
- Irish Independent
See inside opulent Co Waterford country house on the market for €1.85 million
Carrigaleigh House, Carriganore, is described as a 'splendid Georgian period styled residence, nestled in its own extensive mature woodland grounds and gardens of 4.65 acres'. The house is a six-bed five-bath detached premises for sale by private treaty. (Eircode X91X3E8). 'This opulent property extends to 671 sqm (7,223 sq ft, having been constructed in the year 2000 and was completed to the highest possible standard,' say the property agents, DNG Reid and Coppinger. 'The property possesses all the luxuries and features one would expect from a property of its stature. Approached by a traditional entrance surrounded by mature woodland, the property becomes visible from the sweeping tarmacadam driveway through the extensive lawned gardens and mature shrubbery. 'The gardens surrounding the property have an abundance of trees and hedging with colourful shrubs and plants everywhere. 'The front door is approached by granite steps the lead to a large wood panelled front door with traditional fan light overhead, setting the tone of the grandeur and attention to the traditional detailing of the property. Upon entering the property, the scale of the home becomes evident when you are greeted by the expansive hallway and 12ft high ceilings, with ornate coving and Waterford Crystal chandeliers framed by decorative ceiling roses. 'Two formal reception rooms are accompanied by two further sun rooms at the north west side and the south east sides of the house, together with a large drawing room and separate dining room, giving a selection of reception rooms for any occasion. Both formal reception rooms feature solid marble fireplaces with Waterford Crystal chandeliers and matching wall lights, with decorative plaster coving and ceiling roses. 'The kitchen is to the rear corner of the property with separate utility and laundry rooms and a boot room to the rear. The kitchen is a traditional hand made solid oak painted kitchen with Stanley stove framed by a head height over mantle. The kitchen features a highly-detailed solid oak panelled ceiling, mirrored below by a wide plank solid oak floor. 'The downstairs area also includes a guest shower room, storeroom and linen room. The upstairs is approached by a grand staircase, handmade locally and in a white painted finish, mahogany handrail and with a monkeys tail detail at the end. 'The stairs is carpeted matching the hallways in a rich red tailor made carpet with border detailing throughout. The upstairs landing leads to four sizable first floor bedrooms all of which have individual entrance hallways, dressing rooms and large en-suite bathrooms including the master bedroom. 'The second floor has a further two large double bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, and ample storage space with eaves access from both bedrooms.' ADVERTISEMENT The property is located down a quiet country lane in a rural location surrounded by mature trees, and yet is close to Waterford City with easy access to all routes. Viewing is strictly by appointment with sole agents DNG Reid and Coppinger 051 852233.
Irish Times
04-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Tony O'Reilly's lost Dublin town house has a new owner: his godson
Of all the indignities suffered by Tony O'Reilly during his financial collapse , the enforced sale of the Castlemartin Estate in Kildare , where his parents are buried beside a small church in the grounds, must have wounded him the most. But it is said that he was almost as fond of his meticulously restored Dublin town house on Fitzwilliam Square . Last week the classical Georgian house appeared on the property price register with a sale price of €6.475 million. It has been owned for the past decade by Tony O'Shea, a low-key entrepreneur from Co Meath who made his fortune making surgical kits for operating theatres and who in more recent years helped to bankroll the Press Up group's dizzying expansion. The new owner, who bought the house in an off-market deal, was perhaps not solely motivated by its 600sq m (6,500sq ft) of Georgian elegance. It must be far more personal for showjumper and horse breeder Cian O'Connor , who we can reveal as the purchaser. O'Connor, who owns the extremely profitable Karlswood Stables in Co Meath, was O'Reilly's godson. When O'Reilly died last year, O'Connor described him as his 'hero', crediting the former rugby international with inspiring his career in showjumping. Indeed O'Reilly owned Waterford Crystal, the infamous horse on which O'Connor won a gold medal at the Olympics in 2004 that he was subsequently stripped of when the horse tested positive for a prohibited substance. O'Reilly stood by his godson throughout the saga. Bringing Fitzwilliam Square back into the family fold may feel like a step towards repaying that debt. READ MORE Trainers Aidan O'Brien and Anne-Marie O'Brien's property move The other big property sale of the week shows the money's in horses. Aidan O'Brien , John Magnier's master trainer, and his wife and fellow trainer, Anne-Marie O'Brien, are the new owners of the sprawling Fanningstown House in Piltown, Co Kilkenny, near to where Anne-Marie's father, Joe Crowley, had his stables. Fanningstown House, Piltown, Co Kilkenny The couple bought the Georgian house through their family company, Whisperview Trading. While the property price register records the purchase at €1.25 million, that doesn't include its adjoining 40 acres, so it's likely to have fetched close to €2 million. As you'd expect, it comes with five stables, outbuildings, a barn, a coach house with a loft and a mare and foal box. There's also a sauna in case any of O'Brien's jockeys need to make weight in a hurry. Paddy Cosgrave joins 'Drico' on tennis club waiting list Earlier this year it was reported that even the great Brian O'Driscoll is struggling to become a member of Dublin's exclusive Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club. Apparently, O'Driscoll was one of about 300 nominees whose names were put forward this year. Of those, fewer than 80 were chosen, with the club already vastly oversubscribed. Paddy Cosgrove, entrepreneur and Web Summit co-founder Even getting nominated is quite the palaver, with applicants needing to be endorsed by two people who have been members for at least 18 months and who know the prospective member for at least two years. Upon joining, there's a once-off fee of €8,000, as well as annual fees of €2,500. We hear another of those who was unsuccessful this year was Web Summit supremo Paddy Cosgrave, who strung together some decent performances playing masters doubles with nearby Brookfield last year. Presumably his Web Summit hiatus gave him time to work on his backhand. Journalist Eoghan Harris. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish Times Would Harris have plumped for Pym if he knew she was a spook? When the journalist Eoghan Harris chose Barbara J Pym as a pseudonym for a Twitter account in which he took pot shots at various public figures (imagine what Babs would have made of Kneecap), he was presumably paying homage to the English satirist Barbara Pym. The novelist, celebrated for her comedies of manners, worked as a post office censor during the second World War. One of her jobs was to ensure that people in Britain writing to Irish relatives wouldn't reveal any compromising secrets about the war effort. But would Harris have chosen Pym as his nom de plume had he known about new research by British diplomat and Pym scholar Claire Smith that suggests she was working for MI5 during her time poring over wartime correspondence? Apparently British intelligence recruited Pym, a German speaker, because they believed her writer's eye for detail would help her detect coded messages in correspondence. The scabrous Barbara J Pym would surely have had something to say about the matter, had Twitter not shut Harris's sock puppet account down for breaching its 'policy on platform manipulation and spam'. Behind the scenes at the Irish Dancing World Championships in Dublin in April. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times The Big Brother Edgar-Jones and Irish dancing The television adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People, starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, performed the remarkable feat of making O'Neill's GAA shorts fashionable. Another Edgar-Jones, Daisy's father Phil, is also dipping into Irish culture with a new series for Sky on Irish dancing that airs later this year. Phil, one of the creators of Big Brother and now executive director of Unscripted Originals at Sky, has commissioned a new three-part series, The Battle of the Irish Dancers, which follows a cast of high kickers and their teachers competing at the World Championships in Dublin. Perhaps wife Wendy, who reportedly helped daughter Daisy with her Irish accent in Normal People, gave him a heads up about the theatrical potential of the glitzy world of turnouts, tiaras and tan – she comes from Co Down. Tidy town says No to Bible church plan If you think Tidy Towns involves picking up a bit of litter and planting a few flowers on public verges, you're underestimating the type of committees competing for national titles. For them, it's a year-round vocation. Take Abbeyleix, the overall winner in 2023 and a regional winner last year. When a local Bible church sought to extend an old Methodist church building on the town's main street last year, the Tidy Towns committee took issue with its plans. While Laois County Council granted Laois Bible Church permission for a single-storey flat-roof extension and some internal modifications, Abbeyleix Tidy Towns appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála, criticising the extension's 'crude design'. Last week the appeals board ruled in favour of the Tidy Towns committee, saying the extension would detract from the appearance of the protected structure. And that's why they're champions.
Irish Examiner
02-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Clodagh Finn: Marking the centenary of our first female stockbroker
Exactly 100 years ago tomorrow, 22-year-old Oonah Keogh's application to the Dublin Stock Exchange was accepted after a fevered, three-week debate. Little wonder she reported feeling 'sick with fright' when she walked onto the market floor three weeks later, becoming the first female stockbroker in Ireland and in many parts of the world. It was 1973 before London Stock Exchange admitted its first woman. Oonah Keogh was admitted into the Dublin Stock Exchange 100 years ago, an event that made world headlines. The London Stock Exchange didn't admit a woman until 1973. Photo courtesy of her granddaughter Katushka Giltsoff Her entry into the all-male 'sacred precinct' was met with consternation, sensation – and hostility. It was reported that some brokers had even vowed to ignore her but, on her momentous first day, May 28, 1925, she was courteously introduced to every member and treated with the utmost respect. It was a respect that endured and deepened as she proved her innate ability to do the job. HISTORY HUB If you are interested in this article then no doubt you will enjoy exploring the various history collections and content in our history hub. Check it out HERE and happy reading Yet, it must have been daunting. Daryl Byrne, CEO of Euronext Dublin (formerly the Irish Stock Exchange) is making that point as he shows Irishwoman's Diary around the original exchange building on Anglesea Street in Dublin city centre. 'It's a big room with high ceilings and at that time there would only have been men on the floor. It really highlights her bravery, determination, vision and strength of character. She decided what she wanted and had the courage to go for it and achieve it, and she paved the way for others.' The woman herself gave a sense of what it was like to trade in 'the Room', as it was known, a lavishly decorated space with ornate pillars, wood panelling and Waterford Crystal chandeliers. In an interview in 1956, she described how brokers sat in two concentric circles – a chair for each firm – and traded from their seats. If one wished to sell or buy something, they would call out and an interested broker would reply. Then, they would 'look at each other like two cats ready to spring', she recalled. At first, she stood behind her father, long-time member Joseph Keogh, 'keeping the book', or accounting ledger, but when he took ill she took the chair alone for five months. Support for Oonah Here's a fascinating peephole into how that went, courtesy of a London Times article 'First on the Floor' published in September 1956: 'It was exacting work, with telephones ringing constantly and each call liable to turn the market from a buying to a selling market or the reverse. 'In the constant daily battle of wits it was necessary to be 'very smug and poker-like'… [and] when [Oonah's] girlish voice would not carry across the ring of chairs, brokers on either side would shout up gallantly for her.' If that sounds patronising, the article went on to say in no uncertain terms that Oonah Keogh played a blinder in her father's absence. Indeed, business went so well that clients had no idea he had been away. It is striking, at this remove, to see how quickly brokers and clients accepted – and even admired – the first woman to work among them. She also had the public's enthusiastic support when she first applied for membership. 'The public of Dublin are warmly championing Miss Keogh's cause,' trumpeted the Evening News in 1925 in an article that ran under the headline 'Miss Stockbroker. Dublin Excited Over a Girl's Application.' 'They feel that the city, which claims the first woman MP [Constance Markievicz] and first woman barrister [in fact there were two: Averil Deverell, Wicklow, and Frances Kyle, Belfast, were called to the Bar in Dublin in 1921] would be lacking if it showed a reactionary tendency among its stockbrokers.' The same public – embodied in the pen of an unnamed journalist – even made a robust case for Oonah, arguing that there was nothing in the rules preventing a woman being admitted to the stock exchange. The people of Dublin went further by 'declaring', no less, that Miss Keogh [was] entitled to succeed under Article 3 of the Constitution, which ensured equality of opportunity to every citizen over the age of 21. You can't help wondering what happened to the voice of that aspirational, pro-women public in the decades that followed. 'Technically eligible' Though, it wasn't always heard then either. The Dublin Stock Exchange was far from pro-woman in the 1920s. It admitted Oonah Keogh only because she was 'deemed technically eligible' and it had no other alternative. The 1922 Constitution, so closely aligned with the ideals of equality expressed in the 1916 Proclamation of Independence, played a role too. And, of course, Oonah herself had the right credentials. She might have been 'brought up in a glass case and wrapped in cotton wool as well', as she once put it, but she had also been 'soused in stocks and shares' since childhood. She had the private education, the connections and the financial wherewithal too. She could afford the £500 application fee and had references from the right kind of people, including the then agriculture minister Patrick Hogan. What stands out now, however, is how quickly she was accepted into a world that would remain male dominated for decades to come. 'The casualness of that acceptance makes it all the more interesting,' says Deirdre Somers, former CEO of the Irish Stock Exchange. Her entry to the exchange forced a change in the rulebook – all references to 'he' and 'him' now had to include 'she' and 'her – and her assimilation into the cut and thrust of this rarefied world was quick, and complete. Oonah Keogh in the mid-70s. Picture: courtesy of Katushka Giltsoff That is clear from the archives that Deirdre Somers and James Ferguson discovered in the basement of the stock exchange one rainy August afternoon at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Her welcome into the fold wasn't so much borne of altruism but of necessity; the stock exchange operated on its collective reputation so it made sense to ensure that every member did well. And yet, when Deirdre Somers started to do more research, she discovered a great deal of admiration for Oonah Keogh, a woman working at a time when, for a brief period before the 1937 Constitution confined women to the home, there was a burgeoning renaissance among professional women. In 1927, for example, Ivy Hutton opened an all-female painting and decorating business called the Modern Decorator on South Anne Street, a stone's throw from the stock exchange. A little further up the road, Muriel Gahan, tireless promoter of co-operation and traditional crafts, opened The Country Shop on Stephen's Green in 1930. There were many other women working as female directors and company secretaries at the time, too. For example, a list of applications for trade loans tells us that Mairéad Ní Dhálaigh, of Limerick Shoes Ltd, applied for a trade loan to acquire a building and erect a shoe and slipper factory in 1935. (That tiny snippet is gleaned from Dr Therese Moylan's fascinating thesis on women entrepreneurs and self-employed business owners in Ireland 1922-1972, a subject for another day). Oonah Keogh, however, was proving somewhat elusive, and her story had slipped further into the folds of history because her name was spelled in so many different ways. The team at the Irish Stock Exchange was on the verge of writing to the newspapers to enlist the public's help when something extraordinary happened that would bring the incredible life of Oonah Keogh back into the limelight. Next week: How a true pioneer emerged from the shadows
Business Post
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Post
What's On: China, Waterford Crystal, antiques and Symbols of Revival
Fine Arts What's On: China, Waterford Crystal, antiques and Symbols of Revival Round-up of upcoming events in the world of art, antiques and collectibles Philip Carton 07:00
Irish Examiner
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Antiques: Rich pickings in Bandon, Newcastlewest and Waterford
From a finely crafted Celtic Revival silver tea/coffee pot to an advertisement for Rory Gallagher at the Carlton Cinema in Dublin in 1974 and from Boehm Porcelain handpainted plates to Waterford Crystal upcoming sales at Hegarty's in Bandon, O'Donovan's in Newcastlewest and Keighery's in Waterford respectively offer a wide array of choice in a post-Easter burst of auction activity. Jewellery, silver, art and collectibles will come under the hammer at Hegarty's online from 11am on Wednesday (April 30). Rory Gallagher poster at O'Donovan's. At O'Donovan's in Newcastlewest, a private collection of music memorabilia and contents from three pubs in an online-only sale from 6pm on Monday evening (April 28). One hour later, at 7pm, the timed sale of porcelain, Waterford Crystal and collectibles at Keighery's will draw to a close.
