The ever-chic commentator Eoghan Harris is happy to be "second choice" in this case. He has been asked to open a new exhibition at Lemon Street Gallery. "I'm delighted to come in place of David Trimble and be standing in his footsteps," he says.
Harris arrives punctually to open a collection of British art works, entitled Made in the UK. The exhibition by the best in British graphic design is "a tiny little blow against the tidal wave of Anglo-phobia", he tells us. We all straighten our shoulders. "We should be able to find more brotherly amity," he urges.
The work of seven artists, including the three abstract colourists Victor Pasmore, Christopher Le Brun and Therese Oulton and the graphic prints of Patrick Caulfied, Michael Craig-Martin, Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell and Julian Opie, is on view.
Among those spotted at the opening is Helen Kilmartin, of Minima, the furniture and lighting supplier which has moved to a mews near the Peppercannister Church. Also in attendance are Kerry-born sisters Josephine and Cate Kelliher, of the Rubicon Gallery. Andrew O'Connor, the keeper of conservation at the National Gallery of Ireland, also comes along to admire the work, although he's "much more into the older masters".