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Daniel has been FaceTiming me at 5am from Canada – architect Bannon

written by Stephen Maguire September 26, 2017
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RTE architect Dermot Bannon has opened up on dealing with one of his most difficult clients yet – Daniel O’Donnell.

Bannon has teamed up with the Donegal singer and wife Majella on a celebrity edition of ‘Room To Improve’

But he revealed that certain “issues” have already cropped up during the project.

Indeed, the singer is taking a very keen interest in the work, as he told the Irish Independent.

“There have been issues and there will be issues because we’re here to resolve it and work through it,” said Dermot.

“I was shocked. I thought he’d take a back seat. He hasn’t taken a back seat at all. If he gets involved in something, he gets involved in it 100pc.
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He was thinking, ‘Where am I going to get time to do this? I’ve a tour in America, a tour in the UK’. He won’t let it go.

Dermot Bannon

“I have had conversations with him where he’s lying asleep in bed at 5 o’clock in the morning in Canada and he wakes up to do a FaceTime with everybody. He has been all over it.”

He said that Majella (57) was more the driving force behind the need to change their coastal home in Kincasslagh, whereas Daniel thought it was fine the way it was.

Dermot said they also had very different tastes in interiors, with Daniel (55) wanting a big, spacious area after spending so much time in hotel rooms.

“For Majella, she would love a tiny little cottage. For her, a big house is a no-no,” he said. She doesn’t want anywhere too luxurious, too fancy. She’d love to live in a tiny log cabin in the woods, that would be her dream.”

Dermot described the property as a “very ordinary house” with spectacular views but lots of dark spaces.

“It’s big but it has no light and it’s got lots of rooms they don’t use. So we’re not actually extending the house, we’re reconfiguring it to make it work better,” he said.

He insisted the couple got no celebrity treatment on the show. “I do projects because there’s a genuine need. I was a bit dubious going up. Then I saw the house and thought, ‘God this could be so much nicer’,” he said.

Daniel has been FaceTiming me at 5am from Canada – architect Bannon was last modified: September 27th, 2017 by Stephen Maguire
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Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire is the co-founder of Donegal Daily. He has worked as a reporter for almost 30 years starting locally with the Donegal Peoples Press before moving to the Mirror Group. He continues to contribute daily to national media outlets including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Independent, Irish Sun, Irish Mirror, Irish Star, the Daily Mail and the Examiner.

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