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CHILDREN go through phases. These phases may turn into obsessions. Hopefully they will be harmless little obsessions. In my son's case it was Power Rangers, which was ok, and then onto WWF Wrestling which was mind-numbing.
Ok - there's a basically violent undertone running through his obsessions but it doesn't seem to have manifested itself in anything sinister. He's a nice lad and at 16 his obsessions are football, film and the normal things that teenage boys consider..
So now at my advanced stage of life we have Morgan, aged 6. For months it's been BLOODY SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. Night and day on a succession of satellite TV channels. Interminable. Intolerable.
Then she changed. Spongebob was no longer her first love. 'Thanks God,' I rejoiced.
But she has found a new and far more worrying compulsion....
The works of VAL DOONICAN.
Somehow, somewhere, she found a YouTube version of Paddy McGinty's Goat. She played it a thousand times in succession and learnt all the words. She gravitated to Delaney's Donkey and I hear the wretched beast hee-hawing in my sleep.
My friend Bob is from Dublin. I asked him if the Irish nation laughed behind their hands at us all when Doonican wondered over here in the 70s, to take over primetime British TV with his woeful cardigans and lilting bonhomie.
'Yes.' He said. 'We did.'
Bob then went on to tell me about a 3-track 'EP' he bought for his mum. It featured, the goat, the donkey, and a hitherto unheard-of-by-me track called 'The Jarvey was a Leprechaun'.
I rushed home to tell Morgan the news. 'There is more!' I confided. 'We can play Jarvey instead of the other two!'
We search the web and found many references to the song but no renditions - not on I-Tunes, not on YouTube, not anywhere. Someone help me.
I am in Doonican hell.