Horan ends his ‘feud’ with Dustin the Turkey
Niall Horan
NIALL Horan has finally put his feud with Dustin the Turkey to bed confirming to fans that he was “in on the joke”.
The Mullingar man, a longtime Den fan, saw his childhood dream come true when he appeared on The Den’s Talent on the Telly during the charity fundraiser, RTE Does Comic Relief, performing the song Black and White.
But some of his international fans took umbrage with his treatment by Dustin, after the singer was cut off mid-song, saying: “We wanted Harry Styles!
“You’re only getting a minute-and-a-half! I didn’t realise people from Mullingar had teeth!”
An American Twitter account with a following of 146,000 called Niall Updates blasted the joke as “disgusting and unprofessional” before embarking in a Twitter war with Irish fans arguing it was just “Irish humour”.
Earlier in the week, Dustin the Turkey responded to the backlash saying: “Lads ...... I’m a lover* not a fighter .... I love Niall. I love Americans.”
During an interview on Sirius XM, Horan addressed the controversy.
He said: “I don’t know whether to tell the fans that like it’s a puppet, and to also realise that our national treasure is Dustin the Turkey.”
AN “incredibly rare” LS Lowry painting featuring fans swarming out of a rugby league match has fetched €2.2million at auction.
Coming from the
Match, painted in 1928, was expected to fetch €900,000, but the anonymous owner made a huge profit, after paying €286,000 in 2004.
The 12x16in oil painting was based on a scene outside Rochdale Hornets rugby stadium. Rachel Hidderley, of auctioneer Christie’s, said the sale “reinforced how Lowry is still so culturally significant”. Mancunian Laurence Stephen Lowry, who died in 1976 aged 88, painted Modernist masterpieces of working-class Britons in his spare time from work as a rent collector. LS Lowry His most valuable
works, Piccadilly Circus and The Football Match, both sold for €6.2m in 2011.