Working mum Imelda May still undeniably cool in Cork

It was a packed-out tent at the Marquee, with an all-ages Saturday night crowd clad in rockabilly dresses and super-styled fringes as Imelda May came to town.

I brought along a non-Irish friend on Saturday night – a friend who had never heard of her before. After a single song, she turned to me and said: "I love her."