Ice-cubes are clinking in his glass. Alan McCormack, senior member of the Trinity College Chapel Choir and university chaplain, is 007, surrounded by beautiful women. Singers Roisin Furlong, Nicola O'Donoghue, Felicity McElroy and Edel McKiernan move in for the shot. He poses with the four students, James Bond for a few moments on the occasion of the launch of the choir's third CD. Friends and guests are gathered in the Long Room of the Old Library in Trinity to hear the choir give us a flavour of the recorded sacred music. Joseph O'Gorman, choir treasurer, is here to welcome friends such as Triin Parts and her husband, Argo Parts, from the Estonian Embassy. The choir expects to travel to Estonia's capital, Tallinn, next July.
Also here, looking sharp in an Armani jacket is Paul Herriott, the presenter of The Blue of the Night on Lyric FM, who will feature the choir on his programme. The new CD, Incarnation, Songs and Music for the First Coming, is dedicated to the memory of the late Prof Brian Boydell, founder of the choir: his wife, Mary Boydell, and son, Barra Boydell, are proud to be here. They're pleased also one of Boydell's compositions, Noel, is included in the recording. Another CD setting out to scale the charts this Christmas is a release from RTE broadcaster, Conor Mark Kavanagh, whose single on Hummingbird records aims to raise money to combat homelessness in Galway for COPE. The red-haired Sligoman is often heard on Morning Ireland; this time he's singing with Richie Buckley on saxophone.
Sharleen Spiteri had better look to her laurels.