{"id":60453,"date":"2025-10-04T05:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60453\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T05:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:27:17","slug":"dexys-midnight-runners-frontman-i-always-believed-the-british-border-in-ireland-was-a-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60453\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexys Midnight Runners frontman: \u2018I always believed the British border in Ireland was a disaster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Singer hails \u2018astonishingly brave\u2019 Bobby Sands and says he became obsessed with republicanism at the height of his fame\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kevin Rowland performing in London in June 2024 (Photo by Lorne Thomson\/Redferns)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6e2faa3c-5198-46e6-accc-c40162454497.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kevin Rowland performing in London in June 2024 (Photo by Lorne Thomson\/Redferns)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The frontman of Dexys Midnight Runners has revealed he became obsessed with republicanism a year after reaching number one with Come On Eileen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In his new memoir Bless Me Father, Kevin Rowland lauded the \u201castonishing bravery of Bobby Sands\u201d and said he made trips to Northern Ireland to meet with \u201cinspiring\u201d republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer hails \u2018astonishingly brave\u2019 Bobby Sands and says he became obsessed with republicanism at the height of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,41936],"class_list":["post-60453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60453","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=60453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}