NOELLE Campbell-Sharpe declared herself exhausted after a day spent shuttling between the four Courts and her new Cill Gallery on Harcourt Street.
But come evening time on Tuesday, she seemed full of energy as she welcomed American ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to open an exhibition, by Dorothy Smith.
Fittingly for an evening dominated by such a powerhouse of women there was a clatter of women artists present; Camille Souter who popped in late with her son-in-law Peter Johnson; Una Sealy, just back from the States, the country where fellow artist Madeleine Fitzpatrick hails from, and the increasingly successful sculptor, Orla de Bri.
Irene and Brian Quinn of Ballymascanlon hotel group came along to support their son Kieran-Quinn who has recently become project manager of the Cill Rialaig project in Kerry. Meanwhile, Cairainn Childers was describing the massive influx of international interior designers expected to descend upon Killarney when the International Federation of Interior Designers holds its annual congress there this September.