?Baz Ashmawy and Lucy Kennedy travelled to London at the start of the week to meet up with Dara O'Briain. The Irish media trinity were getting together to record one of Dara's commercials praising the delights of Dublin pubs.

?John Fitzpatrick, chief executive of Fitzpatrick Hotels, hosted an exclusive New York, New York evening on Thursday in Residence on St Stephen's Green. The affable hotelier told us that Ryan Tubridy had been a recent guest with him in Manhattan. The RTE star was in the Big Apple doing interviews for his forthcoming book on John F Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland.

?FM104 DJ Adrian Kennedy got a nasty shock on his phone-show last Thursday night. Up for discussion was 'Are Brian Ormond and girlfriend Pippa O'Connor D-List celebs?

A caller to the show was Brian Ormond himself, who pointed out that FM104 didn't consider him D-List when they asked him to plug Kennedy's recent stint in Clerys' window on O'Connell Street on his RTE childrens' show.

?Sinead O'Connor had the reputation once as being an angry young woman. So what makes the singer's blood boil these days? Plumbers, it appears. Asked recently about what makes her angry, it turns out the answer is mouthy tradesmen.

"I get most angry when I
feel I am being disrespected on the grounds that I'm female, when someone deals with me
in a different way to how they'd deal with a male. A plumber working on my house used to say things to me like, 'Don't
get in a tizzy!' when I challenged him about being messy, and I just wanted to smash his face in."

?SPOTTED: Soccer star and expectant dad Robbie Keane enjoying a quiet pint in Gibney's of Malahide last Monday afternoon.