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Dermot Bannon swims in the sea near his home in Malahide, Co Dublin, most mornings. There’s plenty of room out there in the ocean to free himself of any existential angst. He has been doing this since he was a teenager.
It was all so urbane. Twenty-one years ago, in the Tea Room of Dublin’s Clarence Hotel, a clerkish looking John Banville was deliberating the merits of Camembert over Gouda on the cheeseboard with Irvine Welsh’s literary agent from London.
The global record industry is dead. But the live music scene has never been more alive. And front and centre of that scene is a former boyband star who crosses musical genres like he crosses gender divides.
Animal Rights: During a concert with One Direction in 2015 in San Diego, he asked the audience: “Do you like dolphins?” After the crowd responded with cheers, he said: “Don’t go to SeaWorld.”
In late May 1923 at a special meeting of the council of the Cork Chamber of Commerce, its President John Callaghan Foley presided over a debate on tourism promotion in Cork city and the wider region.