{"id":466227,"date":"2026-05-03T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/466227\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:49:11","slug":"do-i-still-fancy-larry-mullen-jr-it-would-be-impolite-to-say-but-his-wife-warned-me-to-keep-my-hands-off-him-boy-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/466227\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Do I still fancy Larry Mullen Jr? It would be impolite to say, but his wife warned me to keep my hands off him!\u2019 \u2013 Boy George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As new exhibition opens in Kildare, Culture Club singer says things are harder for young LGBTQ+ people today\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777801751_165_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Boy George says he doesn&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s easier for gay people now than in the 70s  <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In 1987, Boy George said that if Bono still hasn\u2019t found what he was looking for, the U2 singer should look behind the drum kit in his band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So, almost 40 years later, does he still fancy Larry Mullen Jr?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As new exhibition opens in Kildare, Culture Club singer says things are harder for young LGBTQ+ people today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[4747,3377,18,117,19,17,1678,3409,5788,30168,3380],"class_list":["post-466227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barry-egan","tag-bono","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lgbtq","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-roy-keane","tag-the-late-late-show","tag-u2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}