"Festival dates with Morrissey? Mary, take a bow
They are the most unlikely coupling. The Charming Man that is Morrissey and the 'tired and emotional' blues singer from Galway.
But The Diary [of The Irish Independent Newspaper] can exclusively reveal that Morrissey and Mary Coughlan are expected shortly to announce a number of festival appearances together in the UK this summer.
This development came about after the former Smiths singer turned up at Mary Coughlan's show in Dublin's Academy last Saturday night.
"Morrissey came to a gig of mine in Whelan's a few years ago so I knew he was a fan but it was still a shock when he rang up to find out what time I went on stage in the Academy.
"When I came on, there he was in the front row. I was slightly mortified," she revealed.
Worshipped by his own fans, 'Mozzer' was so taken with Mary's performance he got up on stage to kiss her hand.
A stunned Mary then found the most influential lyricist from the best band in the last 30 years banging on her dressing-room door post-show.
"Maybe it's because I'm f****** brilliant," joked Mary to me this week.
"But seriously, I'm a huge Morrissey fan myself. Some people sent me photographs of me and Morrissey from the concert this week.
"I don't think I look great but Morrissey looks amazing."
The Manchester-born singer, whose song 'Irish Blood, English Heart' became his best-selling single -- with or without The Smiths -- when it entered the British charts at number three in May 2004, is a well-known lover of all things Hibernian.
And with both his parents being Irish, Morrissey is entitled to play for the Irish soccer team.
However, it seems that the music icon has been talking more to Mary this week than Giovanni Trapattoni, as she confirmed: "Yes we have been in contact.
"Plans will be announced shortly, on a couple of festivals he (Morrissey) is doing in the UK," she said.
But however much Morrissey means to Mary, it means even more to her daughter Olwen, who graduated from IADT last year. The subject of her thesis? The collected works of Steven Patrick Morrissey."
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/festival-dates-with-morrissey-mary-take-a-bow-2566848.html