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The Diary, Ken Sweeney - Scene And Heard

Bob Geldof

Niall McCrudden

VIP club Krystle

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? He's been a singer, he's been a fundraiser and political activist, but did we ever think that Bob Geldof would bring us Accountants TV? That's exactly what his company Ten Alps Production is rolling out later this year. The same company airs Engineering TV, and Lawyers TV, but another channel in the pipeline – the unfortunately named Bankers TV – sounds like a real switch off.

? VIP club Krystle, long the preserve of the ever so young, is to launch a special night for the 30s and over. From later this month Fridays will see seniors given special access to the club's upstairs suite
where, it is promised, the music won't be so loud. "The suite is more chilled out and there'll be a table service where guests can sit down for a bottle of wine and a chat. We already get an older crowd but this means we give them a little bit of extra VIP treatment," said a source at the club. Members of Krystle's VIP Membership Club won't even have to suffer the usual indignity associated with nightclubs, getting past the doorman, as a number of existing and potential Krystle members will be presented with exclusive cards gaining them easy access, at a launch night next 24 April.

? Once dubbed 'Optician to the Stars', socialite Niall McCrudden will be poacher turned game-keeper next week when he opens his first restaurant in Dublin's Smithfield. Located on the site of the former Kelly and Ping restaurant, the Courtyard will be McCrudden's first business venture since he sold his glasses chain Insight Opticians two years ago. Given McCrudden's best pals include a number of Fair City's cast, insiders have already christened the new eatery "McCoys" after the bar of the same name in the RTé soap.