The Script frontman Danny O’Donoghue has described a low point before he gave up alcohol following the death of his bandmate Mark Sheehan in April 2023 . The Irish singer said he had intended to go ‘stone-cold sober’ for the whole of Christmas , after the death of his 46-year-old bandmate Sheehan, who died from a brief, undisclosed illness. However, The Voice star revealed that once he had returned to Dublin from the UK for the festive period he immediately started drinking.
The 43-year-old told the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast : ‘By the time I’d got off the plane, I was smashed. With every intention to get on that plane saying, I’m not going to drink at all and then while I was on it, whiskey please. ‘Bang, and then I just hammered the whiskeys, got home and I pretty much spent Christmas just pissed.
‘I do one thing on Christmas Day, have been doing it for 14 years now, where I attend Temple Street Children’s Hospital from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon and spend time with the kids and nurses. ‘It’s a beautiful, beautiful morning. I wasn’t drunk Christmas Eve.
After the hospital I just went straight out to my sister’s, had dinner, straight on the Guinness again and I went like, the 25th, 26th, 27th drunk, the whole time. ‘The 27th I said if I stay in Dublin much longer it will be so bad for me, so I cut it short and went home to the UK where I have my studio, and where my girlfriend lives. ‘I said that’s it, that’.