Cork YouTube star Mick O'Donovan: 'My family think I’m loaded, but that’s not the case'

Mick O’Donovan's quirky take on the gaming world have given him millions of hits

Mick O’Donovan first made an impact with his McDonald’s in Morrowind video on YouTube.

“It’s weird, but the video you think will blow up and do well – it fails horribly. But then the video you spend 14 minutes on at 3am? That’s the one that goes viral.” 

Mick O’Donovan is 24 years old and a full-time YouTuber and influencer from Mayfield in Cork. Although his channel is small, it has been growing fast. At the start of 2021 he had just a few hundred subscribers, and now he has over 116,000, and almost 27 million views. Mick’s success is down to his authentic Irish manner, humour and diligent editing – but the video that gave him his ‘break’ was not what he expected.