{"id":449795,"date":"2026-05-15T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449795\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:50:10","slug":"ocallaghan-hotels-patriarch-noel-ocallaghan-claims-his-lawyers-were-secretly-recorded-by-son-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449795\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Callaghan hotels patriarch Noel O\u2019Callaghan claims his lawyers were secretly recorded by son Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Fresh twist in bitter row that has split family behind \u20ac400m empire\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Noel O'Callaghan celebrates a win at Royal Ascot with his sons Charles and Paul in 2014. The family are now involved in a legal dispute. Photo: Healy Racing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6508c116-de61-4824-811c-c4873c76ae79.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Noel O&#8217;Callaghan celebrates a win at Royal Ascot with his sons Charles and Paul in 2014. The family are now involved in a legal dispute. Photo: Healy Racing<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The family row that has rocked one of Ireland\u2019s major hotel chains has taken a fresh twist, with a new lawsuit alleging lawyers and financial advisers acting for hotelier Noel O\u2019Callaghan were covertly recorded by his son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr O\u2019Callaghan (76), founder of the O\u2019Callaghan Collection, has been involved in a bitter legal conflict with sons Paul (40) and Charles (37), whom he claims froze him out after he transferred a business empire worth \u20ac400m to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh twist in bitter row that has split family behind \u20ac400m empire Noel O&#8217;Callaghan celebrates a win at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,9924,61,60,43,9657,81568],"class_list":["post-449795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-shane-phelan","tag-vhi-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}