The biggest party of the week - and probably the biggest 21st Dublin town has ever witnessed - was Ronan Keating's birthday bash in the Red Box on Tuesday. More than 500 people turned up to wish Ireland's beloved Boyzone boy a happy birthday and to enjoy a lavish party themed around the film Grease.
Never one to shy away from a big entrance, Ronan turned up dressed as a teddy boy on his Harley Davison, much to his fans' approval. However, he was quickly upstaged by his fellow band members, who arrived in a beautiful old Mustang driven by Keith Duffy, which they promptly presented to the birthday boy. The Red Box was decked out with balloons, banners and tons of bright young things in costume. Indeed, even Ronan's family, including his dad Gerry Keating, turned up in full 1950s gear, complete with quiffs.
If you're a footie fan then the star guests of the evening would have been the Newcastle United football squad who came along - all 24 of them including Alan Shearer and John Barnes - having hit the headlines the day before.
Kenny Dalgleish is a big pal of Ronan's, while John's kids are huge Boyzone fans and think Ronan is the bee's knees. Of course there were many representatives of the music world from Mary Black and Frances Black to Finbar Furey and Dickie Rock. The Carter Twins, who are also with Boyzone's manager, Louis Walsh, were there, looking forward to performing in the Eurosong competition this weekend.
John Rocha, the designer chosen to re-invent the Virgin airlines uniforms, came with his wife Odette, just about everybody from RTE radio - including Gerry Ryan, Dave Fanning and Ronan Collins - was there too. Paul Keogh of Polygram came along; snooker's Ken Doherty chatted with Today FM's Eamon Dunphy; model Yvonne Connolly was there, arriving on the back of Ronan's Harley, and so too was Caroline Desmond, fresh with the news that the Childline concert, which she had organised, had scored the highest Network 2 ratings ever.
Perhaps the best thing about the whole party, though, was that - like any good 21st party - there was a mass of the boy's family and old friends there enjoying the night. Ronan is staying on in Ireland until after the Eurosong competition (he wrote the Carter Twins' entry) and then is heading over to Japan with the band because the Mr Bean movie, to which they contributed a song, is huge over there. From there it's back to the auld sod again as Ronan is Grand Marshall of the St Patrick's Day parade. And the man is only 21.