Regurgitate, S’il Vous Plaît

It’s not fair, I want to be a social diarist with RSVP. I wish I had been the lucky hack assigned to go chez “Ireland’s Favourite Couple” Gerald Kean and Lisa Murphy for a spontaneous Christmas dinner in October. Just look at the lovely people I could have wished “Merry (somewhat early) Christmas” and “Recession? […]

A Nose For A Good Story…

Fair play to the Daily Mail hack whose feature, ‘Smart Scent’, about perfumes which “say they’ll make you seem slimmer, sexier – even more intelligent” was published today. Clearly, the commissioning editor correctly decided that any article about the miracle of scent would be best written by someone who goes by the name of Alice Smellie. Reminds […]

Ready-made Seoige & O’Shea replacement

If – Heaven forfend – Gráinne Seoige decides to follow Joe O’Shea and quit the cosy late-afternoon chat show, RTE bosses needn’t panic for too long. They simply need to poach TV3’s Colette Fitzpatrick who, as the cover shot from RSVP magazine, below, shows, looks like a convenient hybrid of the two of them. That’s a proper BOGOF offer […]