The sky’s the limit for The Script ahead of homecoming gig

With sales of 10m records, and a sold-out homecoming gig, The Script really don’t care what the critics say, writes Ed Power.

THE Script’s Danny O’Donoghue was at home watching television when a pounding at the door interrupted his repose. Outside, standing in the rain, was bandmate Mark Sheehan. He had bad news: Danny’s mother had suffered an aneurysm and was not expected to live. The group were in London recording their latest album but all of that was incidental now: O’Donoghue needed to get back to Dublin without delay.

“They’d been trying to call Danny. He’s terrible for not answering his phone,” recalls Sheehan. “So they rang me. I legged it to his place. By the time I got there I’d booked his taxi, his flight to Dublin, everything.”