News about Luke Kelly

VIEW OF WONKA: Roald Dahl, the gritty old man, would have looved this wacky film, writes BRIAN VINER

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 4, 2023
BRIAN VINER: Despite the fact that one of the creators, Luke Kelly, Dahl's grandson, is involved in this wonky Wonka, it doesn't seem that this wonky Wonka will please him at all. Timothee Chalamet, a eccentric chocolatier who was designed for Dahl's 1964 book Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and later starred on a big screen first by Gene Wilder (much to the author's displeasure of Spike Milligan), then re-make by Johnny Depp in 2005.

Nothing compared to her: Sinead O'Connor's tearful fans gather outside the Wall of Fame in Dublin's Temple Bar where Irish singer used to record

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 27, 2023
Hundreds of grieving supporters gathered outside the Wall of Fame in Dublin's Temple Bar today to pay their respects to the late Sinead O'Connor. Mourners discussed the influence her music had on their lives, and they called for her to 'light an absolute fire under all of us' to examine how mental stability and children are handled in Ireland. The audience performed two of her hits, Black Boys On Mopeds and Nothing Compares 2 U, and they also created a small memorial at the Irish Rock 'n' Roll Museum building in Dublin using today's newspapers, flowers, and photographs of the singer.