Blindboy adds another satirical string to his bow

Blindboy is restlessly creative – he was never going to settle for making novelty songs

Blindboy: Ireland’s most interesting satirist

Fiction: The Gospel According to Blindboy: In 15 Short Stories, By Blindboy Boatclub, Gill Books, €21

Earlier this year, the Broadcast Authority of Ireland dismissed 11 complaints about an item on RTÉ’s Late Late Show in which Blindboy Boatclub, one half of multimedia comedy duo the Rubberbandits, described communion wafer as “haunted bread”.

The complaints were led by Fr Kevin McNamara, a Co Kerry priest, who described the phrase “haunted bread” as “blasphemous” ...