{"id":75355,"date":"2025-09-20T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75355\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:47:12","slug":"god-save-us-how-does-that-happen-daniel-reacts-to-viral-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75355\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;God save us, how does that happen?&#8217; &#8211; Daniel reacts to viral dress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country star Daniel O\u2019Donnell has broken his silence on an incredible dress that bears a massive print of his face.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Daniel dress\u2019 by Letterkenny sisters Mirren and Brodie McFeely of C\u00fapla designs has been seen on stage and screen and shared widely online thanks to music star CMAT.<\/p>\n<p>The creative twins had been anxiously waiting to see what Daniel thought of their creation.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, he\u2019s delighted!<\/p>\n<p>The girls received a surprise call from Daniel during an interview with Dermot Whelan on RTE Radio 1 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing, I just didn\u2019t expect to see it where it ended up,\u201d said Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted for Mirren and Brodie to see what they are doing being highlighted in such a way. It\u2019s a fantastic thing, irrespective of the fact that my face is on the dress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at it and I think God save us, how does that happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dress is part of a \u2018Greetings from Donegal\u2019 clothing collection that the McFeelys dreamt up during Mirren\u2019s graduate residency at the Belfast School of Art.<\/p>\n<p>They created the monochrome dress in an ode to Daniel, who they call the \u2018King of Donegal\u2019, and took inspiration from the\u00a0Harry Gordon Bob Dylan paper dress.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the collection features a Banba\u2019s Crown skirt, a Suckin\u2019 Diesel tank, and a sweater inspired by The Cottage Bar. Each piece is a celebration of Donegal heritage, rooted in nostalgia but not afraid to poke fun at itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550091761_1229017589252666_2947333224201326334_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-608139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greetings from Donegal by C\u00fapla Designs<\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter CMAT took a fancy to the Daniel dress when filming for \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ADfHrteW-QE\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">When A Good Man Cries<\/a>\u2019 in Letterkenny. Her ensembles were selected by stylist Katie-Ruby McLaughlin Robinson, also from Letterkenny.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, the McFeely sisters made it their mission to gift CMAT with a version of her own, which the star wore on stage at Belfast Vital in August.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, CMAT has been modelling the dress at various points of promoting her new album, Euro Country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608138\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/549838505_1229016719252753_1630188024680865843_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-608138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twins Mirren and Brodie McFeely present the Daniel Dress to CMAT<\/p>\n<p>While the photo of Daniel is credited to Alamy images, the sisters\u2019 main goal was to secure the blessing of Daniel O\u2019Donnell himself to produce more of the now-famous dress.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in praise of the girls\u2019 innovation, Daniel said: \u201cI\u2019m sure in the future there\u2019ll be many things you do, you won\u2019t have to have my face on anything to get your creative ability out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the exchange here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DOx-1VvDbVi\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018God save us, how does that happen?\u2019 \u2013 Daniel reacts to viral dress! was last modified:  September 20th, 2025 by Rachel McLaughlin<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Country star Daniel O\u2019Donnell has broken his silence on an incredible dress that bears a massive print&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[25059,51224,6371,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-75355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cupla-designs","9":"tag-daniel-dress","10":"tag-daniel-odonnell","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75355","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=75355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}