A number of brown envelopes were handed out in the upstairs bar of Kehoe's on South Anne Street.
Joe Taylor and Malcolm Douglas, two tribunal aficionados, were busy making friends as they helped to launch Haughey's Millions - Charlie's Money Trail, written by Colm Keena of this newspaper.
The pair of actors, who star in the tribunal re-enactments on Vincent Browne's RT╔ radio show, are often busy touring with their show, entitled Will We Get a Receipt, Will We f...? They'll be performing in Whyte's Hotel at the Wexford Festival Opera on Saturday, November 3rd and at the Pavilion Theatre in D·n Laoghaire early in December. "Who says crime doesn't pay?" joked Taylor. "O, tax free haven in the sun," they sang. "All my days I will sing in praise of those greedy banks who run this land."
T.J. Cleary, a Tuam man and an inspector with the Revenue Commissioners, came along to have his book signed and laugh with the rest of us.
RT╔ news reporter Annette O'Donnell, a Donegal woman, who got "engaged, married and had a baby in the course of the tribunal," also came to congratulate Keena. Her baby daughter, Maggie May Matthews, is now eight months old. Other tribunal regulars at the bash included Emma O'Kelly, of RT╔ news and Christine Newman, of this newspaper. Helen Shaw, director of RT╔ Radio, came to salute Keena too.
Among those spotted at the party were Keena's daughter, youngest socialite of the week, Feargha Clear-Keena (3) along with Keena's parents, Patrick and Delia Keena as well as his sisters, Bernadette Murray and Breda Keena.
The book, which is top of the non-fiction paperback best-sellers this week, is published by Gill & Macmillan.