Mick Flannery a Cork Midsummer Festival musical highlight

Mick Flannery returns from the German capital to headline a homecoming gig, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

MICK FLANNERY is holed up on Berlin’s west side these days, but will return to his native Cork for the opening night at the city’s Midsummer Festival.

The Blarney man lived in the German capital for a three-month spell before Christmas and returned in the spring, prompted to make the move “for a bit of a change”. He’s signed up, too, for German courses. Learning the language on the fly wasn’t happening, he explains.