Celtic tiger still roaring at the Curragh

IT WAS as if any mention of economic doom and gloom was banned at the Curragh yesterday.

And for once, it wasn’t the ladies who were getting all the attention. A €20,000 shopping spree prize, sponsored by Brown Thomas, lured some of the country’s most on-trend men to Co Kildare yesterday. The eventual winner of the Best Dressed Man award was the immaculate Zac Jordan (the 22-year-old son of Formula One’s Eddie Jordan). Zac, who is studying at UCD, wore a navy pinstripe suit, pink shirt and cravat.

Alison Doody, the former Bond Girl and lead actress in Indiana Jones, was on the judging panel as was Brown Thomas menswear buying director, Paul O’Connor and jewellery designer Robert Tateossian.