Personality dossiers

People.

Named-subject dossiers built from public-record receipts. One person per page, evergreen, updated when material is added rather than on a publishing calendar. Each dossier carries its own footnoted source list at the foot of the page; every line that names the subject points back to a receipt that meets our standard.

How this index works. A dossier is opened only after the editorial gate is cleared and at least two receipts have been captured against the subject's chronology. The list below grows as the archive grows — it does not list candidates we are watching, only subjects with live published dossiers.

Open dossiers

Heterodox · Tech / events

Paddy Cosgrave

Founder and CEO of Web Summit. The opening dossier covers the October 2023 apology cycle as the most clearly receipted leadership event in the public record around him; the resignation, return, and shareholder-settlement milestones are the active queue.

Opened 2026-05-05 · 24 receipts on file
Hospitality · Non-political

Paul Stenson

Proprietor of Charleville Lodge in Phibsborough and operator of the White Moose Café that traded from the same address until 31 January 2023. Operator, since July 2022, of Sabhna Saunas on Achill Island. The opening dossier covers the 2015 launch-era CCTV row, the 2016 coeliac-note cycle, the 2018 Bloggergate post and show announcement, the 2023 closure retrospective, and the 2024-26 archived web residue.

Opened 2026-05-12 · 10 receipts on file
Influencer · Non-political

Miriam Mullins

Cork TikTok creator and RedFM presenter. The opening dossier covers the December 2021 Irish Examiner breakout profile, the 24 February 2023 RedFM Red Hits hire, the March 2023 hostile-comment backlash documented in named press, the 28 January 2024 Dancing with the Stars elimination, the 2025 TikTok Awards Ireland shortlist, and the 25 April 2026 live confirmation that RedFM still carries her through the breakfast show's Dancing with the Staff podcast page.

Opened 2026-05-13 · 6 receipts on file
Broadcaster · Failed European candidate

Niall Boylan

Dublin talk-radio host. Classic Hits presenter since 2011. The opening dossier covers the 1996-2011 three-station career ladder, the 8 February 2024 Journal FactCheck on a miscaptioned protest clip, the 22 April 2024 Independent Ireland European candidacy declaration and same-day forced exit from air, the 30,637 first-preference Dublin result, the 18 June 2024 "back to radio" choice, and the 24 April 2026 live station-page continuity.

Opened 2026-05-13 · 6 receipts on file
Party-continuity · Fringe candidate

Ben Gilroy

Direct Democracy Ireland launch figure (November 2012) and current Liberty Republic leader (relaunched 6 April 2024). The opening dossier covers the March 2013 Meath East by-election (6.45 per cent peak), the February 2014 resignation and the surviving 11 March 2014 Oireachtas register entry, the repeat-candidacy ladder across DDI / Independent / Irish Freedom Party / Liberty Republic, the bounded 2019-2022 legal middle (RTÉ suit, [2021] IECA 147 dismissal, 2022 WRC face-mask ruling at Decathlon), the three-constituency 2024 general-election outcome (1,141 total first preferences), and the 25 February 2025 Court of Appeal Google joinder ruling.

Opened 2026-05-13 · 7 receipts on file

What's coming next

The active research backlog covers a longer list of named subjects whose dossiers are being prepared. None of these will appear on the index above until receipts are captured and the editorial gate is cleared. The order below is roughly the order in which dossiers are expected to land, not a published commitment:

If you're a public figure who expects a dossier here and want to engage in advance, the takedown and right-of-reply procedure works the same way before publication as after.

Methodology

Every dossier on this page was built from the receipts up — a published statement on the subject's own platform, a captured public post with same-day Wayback snapshot, broadcast footage from a verifiable broadcaster, or a public-record document. We don't run anonymous tips, third-party screenshots, or rumours. The full standard is on a dedicated page; the voice-and-method statement that governs the prose layer is also published.