The neo-classical to rococo interior style of the Georgian Powerscourt House, the former home of Richard Wingfield, the 3rd Viscount Powers, and his wife Lady Amelia was not the obvious place to launch a new tabloid newspaper. But the mix of architectural styles perhaps fitted its ambitions.  Called The Star, its first managing director was John Thompson, who had joined the paper after helping to successfully launch Ireland’s first tabloid newspaper, the Sunday World, in 1973. Thompson had coined the phrase “Are you getting it every Sunday?” and now the hope was he could do the same again in the daily market with The Star, a…

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