Sean Hughes on comedy, Buzzcocks and how he almost lost his virginity in Cork
SEAN Hughes was born in London. His parents moved back to Ireland when he was around school-going age. “It was one of Dad’s practical jokes,” he likes to say, “– making me move to Dublin when I was five years old in 1970 in the height of the Troubles and sending me over there with a cockney accent. It was a nightmare.”
At first, the family lived for a spell in Whitehall. One colourful feature of life in the neighbourhood was the presence of the flame-haired lead singer of The Dubliners. Hughes’s father used to go out of his way to help the troubadour.
