Personality dossier · Hospitality / non-political
Hospitality operator. Proprietor of Charleville Lodge in Phibsborough, Dublin 7, and of the White Moose Café that traded from the same address until the Lodge was sold and the cafe shut at the end of January 2023. Self-published on Paulie's Bog at paulvstenson.com since at least mid-2014. Operator, since July 2022, of Sabhna Saunas on Achill Island. The chronology this archive covers in full: the 2014 founder-tag prehistory on his own site, the 5 October 2015 launch-era CCTV / negative-review row at the newly opened White Moose, the 4 September 2016 coeliac-note Irish Times cycle, the 26 January 2018 first-person Bloggergate post on his own domain, the 25 February 2018 Goss.ie filming-a-show announcement, the 25 November 2018 longform Gosscast interview, the 2020-22 lockdown-takeaway / Moose on the Loose bridge, the July 2022 Sabhna opening, the 27 January 2023 Irish Independent closure retrospective, the 4 February 2023 Irish Times Achill profile, and the 2024-26 archived web residue — ten captured receipts, every named claim footnoted, every source URL paired with a same-day local capture and (where archive.org rate limits permitted) a same-day Wayback snapshot.
Paul Stenson is an Irish hospitality operator. He is publicly identified across three businesses: Charleville Lodge (a guesthouse at 268-272 North Circular Road, Phibsborough, Dublin 7); the White Moose Café (which traded from the same Charleville Lodge address from 2015 until 31 January 2023); and Sabhna Saunas, a wood-fired sauna experience on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, which the Irish Times' 4 February 2023 Achill profile1 places at a July 2022 opening by the article's "last July" wording. His self-published surface lives at paulvstenson.com under the title Paulie's Bog, and the live site still preserves a nine-entry "Founder" tag archive of June-July 2014 posts8 that predates the White Moose era and gives the file its earliest dated self-authored rung.
Three owned domains carry the public-facing identity layer, all of which were directly checked on the live web on 24 and 25 April 20265. whitemoosecafe.ie was still serving its homepage with the title "The White Moose Cafe | The Only 5-Michelin-Star restaurant on Planet Mars", exposing outbound links to White Moose's own Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat. paulvstenson.com was still live as Paulie's Bog, with the homepage exposing Stenson's Instagram, Facebook, X, WhatsApp, Snapchat and YouTube routes. sabhna.ie was still live as the Achill booking and shop surface, with Facebook, Instagram and TikTok routes and a footer reading "2026." The three routes are the source-of-truth for any first-party claim made on this dossier; secondary press is used for everything that requires a second observer.
The earliest dated self-authored rung in the public archive predates the White Moose era. paulvstenson.com/tag/founder/8 still exposes a nine-entry "Founder" tag archive running from "OnlineGrinds.ie — My side of the story", dated 6 June 2014, to "Chapter 18: Bye Bye Learnology and The Jack & Jill Lollipop Story", dated 4 July 2014. The same live site menu still routes to standalone longform pages titled "ONLINEGRINDS.IE — MY SIDE OF THE STORY" and "GARTHGATE — THE MANUEL STORY". The Internet Archive preserves a 16 July 2019 capture of the founder-tag page9, so the prehistory is publicly archived as well as live. The receipts here are bounded to archive structure and voice continuity; the underlying 2014 grievance claims themselves are not independently corroborated and are not used here as findings, only as a dated record of Stenson's own self-authored publishing surface before he opened White Moose.
The first clearly dated White Moose row landed on 5 October 2015 in the Irish Independent10, under the headline "'If you are not happy with your food, DON'T F**KING EAT IT' — Angry hotelier turns tables on disgruntled customer". The piece identified Charleville Lodge as having "opened a new White Moose Cafe" and reported Stenson's response to a customer complaint via a Facebook post that referenced the cafe's CCTV. The next day, on 6 October 2015, Newstalk10 reported the same row under the headline "Dublin cafe posts CCTV footage of woman who wrote negative review." Two named outlets on consecutive days name Stenson as White Moose proprietor and frame the response as a recognisable cafe-publicity pattern in its first month of trading. This is the dossier's handoff from the 2014 Paulie's Bog prehistory into the dated White Moose era.
Eleven months after the launch row, the Irish Times3 published "Dublin cafe causes storm over 'prove you're coeliac' demand," reporting on a White Moose Facebook post requiring evidence of a coeliac diagnosis before the kitchen would issue a gluten-free meal. The Irish Times piece framed the post inside "a wider pattern of aggressive marketing and publicity-seeking" and quoted Stenson directly: he described Facebook as free advertising and said the point was to get more people reading about the business. The 2016 receipt is the cleanest pre-2023 source where the controversy and the stated publicity logic appear in the same paragraph. The dossier's editorial position is that this is a public business statement about a public business strategy; it is not a private-life claim.
On 26 January 2018, Stenson published "THE TRUTH BEHIND #BLOGGERGATE" on his own site4. The post is the cleanest first-person source in the file for the publicity-as-business model: it links the influencer dispute back to earlier White Moose rows around vegans, gluten-free food and customer behaviour, and it explicitly treats humour as the mechanism for getting a message across and treats publicity value as part of the intended outcome. Hard-line note: the receipt is bounded to Stenson's own framing and his own published wording. The 2018 exchange involved another named public-facing figure who has since spoken on the record about the response cycle she received; that material is downstream of Stenson's posts and is not in scope for this dossier. The Paulie's Bog post itself, captured as receipt 04, is what this section cites.
Four weeks after the Bloggergate post, Goss.ie7 ran an exclusive headed "EXCLUSIVE! The White Moose Cafe reveal they're filming their own show", reporting that Stenson and Jason Kidd would launch an online show on YouTube and social platforms. The still-live article HTML preserves the exact embedded Facebook video route used for the announcement clip — facebook.com/GossIRE/videos/1599436870094076/ — recovered from the article source on 25 April 2026. The 2018 media rung is no longer a vague note that a clip once existed; the dated platform URL is captured in the receipt set, which makes the route available for later archive-grade capture if a playback copy becomes editorially necessary.
On 25 November 2018, the Gosscast podcast published episode 4, headed "#4 — Paul and Jason of the White Moose Cafe,"6 as a 52-minute interview with Stenson and Jason Kidd. The episode page is still live on Audioboom with a working embed and download route, and the public episode description frames the pair through their recurring controversies and their stated view that publicity works in their favour. The 2018 phase of the dossier is now supported in three media formats — first-person text (receipt 4), a recovered embedded video route (receipt 7), and a still-live longform audio interview (receipt 6) — without any of those receipts depending on a forum recap or a third-party retelling.
The middle of the file is bridged by the same Irish Times Achill profile that anchors the identity layer1. The profile records that during the Covid-19 lockdown period Stenson pivoted White Moose to takeaway and opened three Moose on the Loose locations around Dublin before later moving west. The same profile places the Sabhna opening in July 2022 by its "last July" wording. The receipt here is one secondary-press source carrying both the lockdown pivot and the pre-closure Sabhna opening; the dossier does not extrapolate beyond that source for the 2020-22 bridge.
Four days before the White Moose Café shut, on 27 January 2023, the Irish Independent2 published "White Moose Cafe owner has no regrets about controversial spats over vegans, bloggers and breast-feeding." The piece is the closure-era anchor for the dossier and the cleanest source in the file where the "narky cafe owner" persona is framed by Stenson himself as a deliberate marketing device rather than as accidental chaos. The cafe traded until 31 January 2023 from the Charleville Lodge address; the Lodge itself was sold in the same window, and the closure of the cafe and the sale of the Lodge are the two events that mark the end of the Phibsborough-era White Moose operation.
One week after the closure retrospective, the Irish Times1 profiled Stenson in Achill under the headline "Paul Stenson: 'I'm out of the claustrophobia that is Dublin 7 and living in a paradise — Achill.'" The profile is the dossier's identity receipt because it is the only piece of mainstream reporting that ties White Moose Café, Charleville Lodge and Sabhna Saunas together in one date-anchored source. It also carries the lockdown-pivot detail and the "last July" Sabhna opening reference that the dossier uses to fix the 2022 rung in section above.
White Moose Café shut at the end of January 2023, but whitemoosecafe.ie did not. The Internet Archive CDX index9 records repeated 200-status captures of the homepage between 28 February 2024 and 19 January 2026, with a checked 5 March 2026 snapshot still preserving the post-closure homepage state. The 24-25 April 2026 first-party re-check5 confirmed that the same owned homepage was still serving live: a current Sandymount Green, Dublin 4 ordering/location layer is exposed in the body alongside an older Phibsborough / Dublin 7 footer block, two different opening-hours lines appear on the same page (8:30am-3:00pm in the Sandymount block and 7:30am-3:00pm in the legacy Phibsborough footer), the page metadata still describes White Moose as being in the Phibsboro area of Dublin 7, and the homepage copy describes the brand as operating a Dublin 4 dark kitchen "while we look for new locations." The page's modified-time metadata reads 2023-12-07. The owned White Moose Facebook page route is also publicly archived: the Internet Archive CDX index9 records 200-status captures on 9 April 2024 and 5 October 2024, and the checked October 2024 snapshot still exposed page-level metrics of 180,597 likes, 6 talking about this, and 339 were here. The dossier's framing is therefore not "White Moose ended in January 2023" — it is "the Charleville-era operation ended on 31 January 2023, and the owned-site residue has continued in a mixed Sandymount / legacy-Phibsborough state for at least 24 months after."
The dossier ships with explicit gaps, recorded so a later editorial pass knows what's not in the file rather than discovering it the hard way:
Three editorial gates are enforced on every receipt and every line of prose on this page, regardless of how the rest of the public archive frames the same material:
facebook.com/GossIRE/videos/1599436870094076/. The 2018 video rung is therefore date-anchored to a specific platform URL rather than to a vague "a clip once existed" note.
paulvstenson.com, observed 25 April 2026.
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Live first-party tag archive structure on Stenson's own site. Founder tag exposes a nine-entry 6 June 2014 to 4 July 2014 run; the earliest dated rung is "OnlineGrinds.ie — My side of the story". The White Moose Café tag resolves to a one-post 2018 #BLOGGERGATE index. Use bounded to archive structure, dating and voice continuity — the underlying 2014 grievance claims are not adopted here as findings.
If you are Paul Stenson, his counsel, any of the businesses named on this page, or any party named in scope, and you believe a claim here is wrong, the takedown procedure is on the about page. 72-hour response, no paid takedowns, contested receipts pulled pending review per the standard.