Daniel O'Donnell: 'The passenger door opened, and a man jumped in and said, 'Drive'… in that moment, I almost needed a nappy'
Halloween is a mere 10 days away, and, fittingly perhaps, the new Daniel O’Donnell release, How Lucky I Must Be, comes with its own horror movie, of sorts. It’s a sort of palate cleanser to all the sweet ballads on the 12-track record proper, and is as darkly Irish as anything imagined by Pat McCabe and as camp as a row of tents. The plot deals with a new museum of Daniel waxworks which come to life at night and maraud like zombies through a Donegal town. Only the smooth and syrupy tones of our Daniel, emanating from the television, can stall these lacquered monsters in their tracks, but i...