No wee feat: Daniel back in the charts with new album this Christmas

A national treasure, the Donegal crooner has won the hearts of a new generation of millennials thanks to a mix of reality TV shows and quirky boiler ads, writes Caomhan Keane.

Daniel O’Donnell, or wee Daniel as he is affectionately known, is a national treasure, so firmly woven into our collective consciousness that his sentimental thread count is off the charts.

My generation has grown up with him crooning away in the background. My parents bopped to him — or his sister Margo, legends both of the showband era.