Could it be so? Is it possible? Has VIP clubbing returned to the capital? With Krystle abandoning all pretence of its 'exclusivity' by offering dirt cheap booze on Fridays ("when the market crashes, so do the drink prices" the poster screams desperately), Residence in receivership, Reynards gone to the wall and Lillie's Bordello resigned to launches and birthdays, it felt like the velvet rope was well and truly cast aside. Enter Number 5, a 'club' behind the Unicorn restaurant off St Stephen's Green that has been pulling in punters from Lady Gaga to Peaches Geldof, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (pictured) and squawkers from the Daily Mail. There are of course still people out there wanting to spend dosh away from the plebs, so could more low-key exclusive clubbing be the new method for gaining such custom? Considering that 'Number 5' is also known as "the back of Residence" and an overflow for Unicorn, it doesn't exactly have the same cachet as a purpose-built nightclub. Its demureness also doesn't sound like much fun, considering the heart of clubbing in Dublin at the moment lies somewhere between '80s New York, late-noughties London and a divilment all of our own. Wreck the gaff, not the credit card.