The Celtic Tiger couples that just couldn't take the heat

She’s beautiful, super-wealthy, influential... but TV3’s Celebrity Apprentice gaffer, Caroline Downey, is nursing a heartache.

The Celtic Tiger couples that just couldn't take the heat

While viewers may envy her privileged existence, few would want the MCD boss’s complicated love/work life. Caroline revealed last month that she is running the concert promotion company with her now-estranged husband, Denis Desmond.

“Denis had an affair,” she said. The news came as a shock to those who saw the Desmond’s 32-year marriage as one of the most enduring on pre- and post-Tiger Ireland’s ‘celebrity’ circuit.

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