James Lafayette was photographer to the Royals, and some of the figures here would’ve had their portraits taken here,” National Wax Museum Plus owner Patrick Dunning explains to a crowd of nodding media types.

Hot Press’ biggest kids are in the writers’ room of the iconic Lafayette building that sits between D’Olier Street and Westmoreland Street, where we have a view looking straight up O’Connell Street that’ll be even more iconic once the Luas works are finally complete.

Sharing the space are Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Oscar Wilde - in waxwork form, having survived the move from the museum’s old premises on College Green. Mimosas in hand, we toast the brand-new gaff - an iconic, central spot for a museum full of icons central to Irish history.