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Super furry SuBo wows Inishowen
15.01.12
by Linda McGrory
SINGING superstar Susan Boyle stunned locals in
Inishowen when she dropped in for lunch on Saturday.
Staff and customers at the Halfway House, Burnfoot,
were "shocked" when the singer walked through the
door at 2pm. Wearing a warm long faux fur coat
against the Donegal winter chill, she was
accompanied by three friends - two women and a man. |
"We went straight down
to the bar when we got a call to say Susan Boyle had
come in," said Martina Long, sister of the
proprietor.
"She was lovely. She had a sandwich and a half pint
of Guinness and chatted away to everyone. She signed
autographs and stood for photos and she didn't mind
at all.
She was very nice and down to earth.
"Word got about pretty quickly and within minutes
the crowd in the bar had doubled," she laughed.
Dressed in a long white cable-knit jumper and
green-gold scarf, Ms Boyle spent the day
sight-seeing around the peninsula with her party -
believed to include her PA. The four later dropped
into a local seaside hotel for dinner.
"Susan Boyle and her friends came in around 7.30pm.
Everyone recognised her straight away," said Breedge
Doherty, manager of the Lake of Shadows Hotel in
Buncrana. |
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Susan Boyle, pictured with Martin
Gallagher, manager of the Halfway House, Burnfoot,
Co Donegal, after the singing superstar dropped in
for a pub lunch on Saturday. |
"She was chatting away
to people in the bar and shaking hands for about an
hour. She was very nice to everyone."
The hotel then organised for the millionaire singer
and friends to have their dinner in private.
Meanwhile, worshippers were delighted to spot the
singing sensation at 12.30pm Sunday Mass today in St
Mary's Oratory, Buncrana. |
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Singing superstar, Susan Boyle,
pictured with Arlene Coyle, left, Martina Long and
young cousins Lindsay Long, 5, and Anna McDaid, 6
after she called in to the Halfway House, Burnfoot,
Co Donegal, for a pub lunch. |
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