Finnegan's book club

THE SOCIAL NETWORK:The Comedian Anne Gildea launched Brian Finnegan's new book, The Forced Redundancy Film Club, at the Sugar Club on Wednesday evening.

Gildea, of the comedy trio the Nualas, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer last summer and took part in a recently aired documentary. She told me: “I’m minus a boob, but I’m good.” She was looking forward to going to Rome tomorrow and touring with the Nualas’ new show, Older, Wiser, Heftier, upon her return. It is in Tallaght next Friday, in Cork on May 12th and in Dublin on June 8th.

Finnegan – editor of Gay Community News– is from Sligo; his parents, Tony and Joan, travelled up for the launch. His partner, Miguel Gernaey, works for Dell. Maggie Breheny, a schoolfriend in Sligo, and the Dublin singer-songwriter Ciara Sidine, sang songs, including Moon River and Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Oisin Davis, general manager of the Sugar Club, told me that Lee Fields The Expressions are performing there this evening. Paul Lynch, a former film critic for the Sunday Tribune, recently received a six-figure, two-book deal with Quercus for his debut novel, Red Sky in Morning, and his next book, which he can’t talk about but to say it is due out next year.

Who we spottedThe graphic designer Pete Reddy; Telly Bingo's Declan Buckley; Conor Wilson, who works in advertising on Gay Community News; the artist Will St Leger; Anna Taylor, event producer at Film Fatale and programme manager at Screen Cinema