THE charity premiere of 101 Dalmatians on Sunday was a suitably noisy child-dominated affair.
Rosanna, Hubie and Michael deBurgh were there with their parents Chris and Diane, Cathal Turley arrived with his dad Graham, as did Jack and Rory Doyle who were there with Roddy.
Helen Kilmartin, owner of Dublin's newly opened and by far coolest interiors shop, Minima, brought her daughter Ava, and had there been a most appropriately dressed couple they would have romped off and white Dalmatian print clothes.
The pre-film party location was, of course the Red Box - this week even the under eights couldn't get away from this new must-go venue, though most seemed to want to. Comment of the party which didn't quite work, thanks largely to the very grown-up venue, goes to three-year-old Molly Jermyn who surveyed the Ron McCulloch-designed space with its cool metal detailing and state-of-the-art lighting system band announced in a little voice with her lower lip quivering ominously: "It's very dark, I'm scared". Out of the mouths of babes ...