{"id":430002,"date":"2026-05-03T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:51:09","slug":"do-i-still-fancy-larry-mullen-jr-it-would-be-impolite-to-say-but-his-wife-warned-me-to-keep-my-hands-off-him-boy-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430002\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Do I still fancy Larry Mullen Jr? It would be impolite to say, but his wife warned me to keep my hands off him!\u2019 \u2013 Boy George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As new exhibition opens in Kildare, Culture Club singer says things are harder for young LGBTQ+ people today\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777801869_554_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Boy George says he doesn&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s easier for gay people now than in the 70s  <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In 1987, Boy George said that if Bono still hasn\u2019t found what he was looking for, the U2 singer should look behind the drum kit in his band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So, almost 40 years later, does he still fancy Larry Mullen Jr?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As new exhibition opens in Kildare, Culture Club singer says things are harder for young LGBTQ+ people today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6282,26016,93,61,60,4829,9034,271,7539,660],"class_list":["post-430002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barry-egan","tag-bono","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lgbtq","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-roy-keane","tag-the-late-late-show","tag-u2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}