The line of fired up chariots parked outside Cocoon last night gave an indication to the type of party it was. The fired up chariots (as opposed to chariots of fire) being a Ferrari, a couple of Range Rovers and a plethora of Beemers. The "IT" crowd were out en force.
Guzzling champagne and Vodka Red Bull, the assembled guests were there to celebrate the launch of an exciting new website, afterdark.ie. The brainchild of boys-about0town Keith Foran and Ivano Caffola, the site aims to be an entertainment portal for the party hard core, those clubbers and socialites who keep the lights burning seven nights a week.
Afterdark.ie brings together the top clubs and pubs in the city (including SIN, Cocoon, Rush, PoD and Renards) and creates an online community for those beautiful people who frequent them. Forums, competitions, news items and photo galleries have already attracted a steady flow of party people to the site. Keith informed me that they’ve already had over 16,000 unique visitors.
Some of the boldface names I spotted were top model Glenda Gilson (who was sporting semi-curly hair again), Richard Kavanagh, Triona McCarthy, Alan Amsby, Trevor Musgrave, Social & Personal publisher PJ Gibbons and Cindy Caffola (looking sexy in a black trilby).
American businessman Pat Brennan was in town from
Post-Cocoon the posse continued on to Lillies, though it was well after dark by the time they left.
[The members launch party for afterdark.ie takes place this weekend at twentyone.]
