Back in the box: Why Bosco is Ireland’s favourite five-year-old

Ireland’s rock-star puppet is on a nationwide tour. Bosco talks with Donal O’Keeffe about environmentalism, Brexit and Michael D

A murmur of anticipation ripples through the darkened auditorium of Kilkenny’s Watergate Theatre as the well-loved jingle-jangle theme music plays and the spotlight picks out a curtained puppet theatre.