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In 2003 I was working in a frame maker’s shop in Cork city.

On the radio every Friday they ran a segment called “Fix It Friday,” and every Friday - for months, I texted them the same question:

“Do fish fart?”

They never read it out.

Then I went to Australia for a year.

When I returned to Ireland, I caught the bus to see my mother, the first thing I saw at the bus stop in Douglas, was a giant Today FM billboard that said:

“Do Fish Fart?”

Twelve years later, i had a song on daytime radio and ended up signed

I was invited onto that same station.

I asked the producer if he remembered the texts.

He didn’t,  but we laughed.

I still don’t know if fish fart.

And for some reason, I’ve never tried to find out.

 

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