A tip-off for Christy Moore - he'll probably get a book as a present from his brother, Luka Bloom, this Christmas. Luka's plan is to give Voyage of Hope, Sail Chernobyl, "this amazing book to everyone in my family." We're at Lobo, the sushi club downstairs in the Morrison Hotel where the lights are low and there's a crush of bodies. Ah, the Coveneys of Cork are in town.
Ali Hewson and Adi Roche are chatting in the shadows to plastic surgeon Michael Earley. They're talking about little Alexie Barrett, who came from Chernobyl as a baby suffering with a large eye tumor. He was one of the first Belarussian children to be adopted in Ireland. Now, four years later, he's doing great, says Adi, and has a strong Dublin accent. "He's such a special boy, and he knows it too," she says.
Liz McGarry, a nurse from Courtown, Co Wexford, tells Ali how she got involved in the Chernobyl Children's Project. "Adi stopped me in the Kitchen one night and talked me into it," she says. Since then she's been over and back to Belarus several times working in an orphanage in Novinki.
Jay Larkin, the Balinese manager of the club, weaves his way through the crowd, checking that all have drinks. Rory Coveney, who kept notes during the family's round-the-world charity voyage, wrote the book during the summer. All its proceeds will go to the charity. Older brother Simon, who's been a TD for 13 months, says politics is "challenging and all-consuming".