Oliver Callan warded off accusations of homophobia by publicly coming out on‘The Saturday Night Show’. Picture by David Conachy
Fast forward a few months and, while the nation s curtains twitch, and Twitter seethes with judgement, Callan is still singing a different tune. The mood is so different now. Lockdown one was - everyone was kind of optimistic, we thought the world is going to be so much better, we re not going to be so obsessed with work and we re going to spend more time with our kids. Now we re in lockdown two and it s all about shame and finger-pointing - there s young people in a bar, there s young people walking down a road after a county final, how dare they? Small liberties become tantamount to murder and thieving and you think, wow, we lost all that hope and kindness very quickly.