The Diary, Ken Sweeney - Scene & Heard

Mark Sheehan

Graham Knuttel

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* Supporting U2 at Croke Park in July, Irish band the Script say they can't thank their fellow Dubs enough. Guitarist Mark Sheehan (left) said: "U2 have been so good to us. Even last week they sent us a lovely letter in New York to say, 'Good Luck', and a nice basket of Guinness and champagne. They always support us in that way. There were so many bands that U2 could have chosen and they chose us for Ireland. It's huge for us. In the States they had a press conference about a month ago and Edge and Bono were asked who their favourite band was – and they mentioned us."

* Was Ryan Tubridy paying Pat Kenny a back-handed compliment when we quizzed him about comments Pat made about him in an RTé Guide interview last week? Comparing himself to his successor on The Late Late Show, Pat had said: "I was trying to modernise RTé Radio 1. That's the difference between Ryan and I. I was very much a man of my own time. Ryan talks about becoming Parkinson and yet he's only 35. He refers to himself as a young fogey, yet I was never that." Launching the latest collection from Graham Knuttel (right), 'Back to Basics', in Dublin last Wednesday night, Tubridy had this to say by way of reply. "Pat is from a different generation, isn't he? I think that, in that sense, we have very different styles of broadcasting. He did what he did, said what he said. He delivered the viewers on a weekly basis, you can't argue with the numbers."

* SPOTTED: Broadcaster Gerry Ryan and Unicef director Melanie Verwoerd dining out on lobsters in Ouzo's Restaurant, Dalkey last Monday night. The couple were later spotted on the street outside sheltering from the rain under an umbrella decorated with cats... Virginia Macari, Leigh Arnold, Marcus Sweeney, Pippa O'Connor and Brian Ormond, Sara and Julie Kavanagh and Gordon D'Arcy all attending Krystle's White Party last weekend... Boxer Bernard Dunne and new boyband Closure in Lillie's Bordello last weekend.