Grandees book their place at Kathleen’s celebration
The official unveiling of Kathleen Watkins’s new book Happy Christmas, Pigin! will be this Tuesday evening at Dunnes Stores headquarters on South Great George’s Street.
The great — Gay Byrne — and the good will be there, naturally, to wish Kathleen all the best on the launch of her latest bestseller.
Among the grandees expected on this night of nights will include: Marty Whelan and wife Maria, Neven Maguire and wife Amelda, Nuala Carey and Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell among many others.
Neven won’t just be pitching up. He will be singing for his supper, as it were.
In fact, he is making it — all the designer food on the night will be specially prepared by the award-winning TV chef extraordinary.
Speaking of people who are extraordinary on television, beautiful Mary Kennedy will be going straight from work on Tuesday night to the launch in town of her good pal Kathleen’s highly anticipated book.
Mary — who spent the weekend prepping for commentary on the presidential inauguration — is just back from Ypres and the ridge at Messines and German and Allied cemeteries in the area of West Flanders where she was filming a series of World War 1 programmes for her RTE show Nationwide.