Previously called Court and Personal it originally published the Court Circulars of the British royal family, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and brief society reporting details of which members of the upper class were available in their Dublin townhouses to receive callers.
[1] The Fianna Fáil government criticised the column for listing President Douglas Hyde's engagements after those of the Royal Family and others, including leading members of the former Protestant Ascendancy — what Frank Aiken called "every hyphenated person in the country".
[3] In 1942 the government used its wartime censorship powers to remove the column altogether, on the grounds that it compromised the state's neutrality.
Until around 1978 it published a daily list of who met the President of Ireland in Áras an Uachtaráin.
Today the column only appears occasionally, to enable prominent families to announce forthcoming nuptials, and frequently goes for weeks without being included in the paper.