Bob ’n’ Jeanne all at sea
‘Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric,” wrote your man WB Yeats, “out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” The incomparable Bob Geldof — who has never in his life shied away from a quarrel — was spotted treading softy on Dawson Street last Saturday afternoon with his beautiful wife Jeanne Marine. The bounce in the Boomtown Rats’ singer’s step was possibly not unrelated to the fact that he had won the Best Specialist Factual award for his WB Yeats documentary Fanatic Heart at the 2016 IFTAs the previous night at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel. They were en route to The Seafood Bar on Dawson Street (run by Martina Fox, no less) for a late afternoon lunch. Poisson in the afternoon has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
Bob ’n’ Jeanne, who were staying in the Westbury hotel, were the embodiment of not-so-young-love’s dream as they enjoyed their chic collation a deux. Their joie de vivre (sorry — I’m letting the fact that Jeanne is French go to my head a little bit here, n’est–ce pas?) was equally in evidence the previous night in House on Leeson Street around the corner from the old Burlo on Burlington Road.
They popped in with a gang for a celebratory drink after the IFTAs, arriving at 11.30pm and staying until to a little after 1am.
On the following night in the same hot-spot of the moment were Pippa O’Connor and husband Brian.