{"id":9017,"date":"2025-08-19T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9017\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:17:12","slug":"donal-lynch-factory-workers-toiled-so-madferit-irish-influencers-could-cosplay-the-1990s-what-is-the-second-life-of-100000-oasis-branded-bucket-hats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9017\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3nal Lynch: \u2018Factory workers toiled so \u201cmadferit\u201d Irish influencers could cosplay the 1990s. What is the second life of 100,000 Oasis-branded bucket hats?\u2019"},"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\">Vulture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liam and Noel Gallagher look out on to a sea of bucket hats at Croke Park, August 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/60d65d0d-6409-4fb1-99ac-b5e9b6f1b023.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)\">Liam and Noel Gallagher look out on to a sea of bucket hats at Croke Park, August 2025<\/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)\">Walking through Dublin city centre on a hot summer Friday afternoon I see a line of around 200 people in Oasis-themed gear queuing to buy \u2013 not last-minute tickets, as I assumed \u2013 but yet more Oasis-themed gear.<\/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)\">I peer inside the cash-in cavern and it\u2019s like a pop-up Knock village, but with bucket hats instead of weeping statues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulture Liam and Noel Gallagher look out on to a sea of bucket hats at Croke Park, August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-9017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-oasis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","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=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}