The Shinners' Dublin Dáil shindig put me in mind for a long gleek at the girls of the new Republican Resistance calendar, Women in Struggle.
It's certainly a quality calendar – and would look well on any loyalist club's dartboard, as well as many a republican home across the island.
The calendar features pics of some of the most famous females in Irish republicanism.
These include Irish Volunteers gun runner Molly Childers, the late Siobhan O'Hanlon and the lively Rita O'Hare – both top Shinners – and 1930s heroine Maud Gonne MacBride.
Fianna Eireann founder and British spy Constance Markievicz, would-be Gilbraltar bomber Mairead Farrell, and Irish Women's Franchise League founder Hanna Sheehy Skeffington also make appearances.
And the with European poll round the corner, top of Sinn Féin's calendar babes are defending MEPs, Squeaky Voice Spice Babs de Brun, and Shinner Spice Mary Lou McDonald.
But then the calendar develops into a complete b***cks with several glaring, inexcusable errors.
Why no mention of Jean McConville, the Falls Road mum murdered by the IRA in 1972, one of the Disappeared? Her body was found and buried in 2003.
Where's the glowing tribute to Sharon McBride, Gillian Williamson, or Evelyn Baird – all killed in October 1993 in the Provos' no-warning fish shop blast on the Shankill Road?
How about honouring Ivy Kelly, who died with her eight male RUC colleagues in the IRA mortar attack on Newry barracks in February 1985?
And I can't find a reference to Catholics Margaret O'Hare and Brigid Murray who both died in the IRA's Bloody Friday Cavehill Road car bomb blast.
In fact, the Republican Resistance calendar even ignores the women who died in the La Mon, Claudy and Enniskillen IRA massacres.
But republican hypocrisy doesn't end with the Provos. There's yet another Republican Resistance calendar, produced by those dissident dinosaurs Republican Sinn Féin.
It's calendar features a photo of armed Continuity IRA gunmen firing shots over the grave of supposed icon Dan Keating, the RSF patron who died aged 105 in 2007.
The Kerryman joined the IRA at 14, and his bitterness against working with Unionists was so extreme he once branded the Northern peace process as "a joke".
Dissidents hail Dan Dare as a modern icon today's republican youth can look up to. B***ocks.
RSF and CIRA conveniently forget he was part of the Castlemaine ambush in Kerry during the so-called War of Independence in which eight coppers and soldiers were murdered.
Hero Danny helped in another Kerry ambush at Castleisland when another four officers were butchered – and fought with the IRA against Free Staters in the civil war. Some hero.
These calendars should be rebranded as republican resistance to the truth. Get real girlies and stop trying to con the Irish people.
Meanwhile, former UUP boss Davy Trimble is set to become head of the North's courts service – provided Dandy Dave Cameron kicks the Brown Bounce into touch.
Trimble is now a Tory, but is already being hotly tipped for a key post in Dandy Dave's Cabinet even before Gordon Brown calls the next General Election.
With the UUP now back in bed with the Conservatives, some Unionists nearly choked on their brussels sprouts at the UUP pre-conference dinner in Belfast when they saw Lord Trim working the tables.
A strong lobby in the UUP believes Trimble will be back as Northern Secretary, but talk of him replacing wee Reggie as leader of a joint Northern Tory Unionist Party is seen as premature – until the next Commons poll.
