This happened in 1997, when David Bowie was playing in the Point Depot.
Dennis and Gene, husband and wife who lived in the North Strand (Sadly both now deceased) who were friends of my parents used to stay in the Ounavara Hotel in Courtown on the August bank holiday week.
We'd be down in nearbye Ballygarrett residing in a Mobile Home, and my parents would catch up with them in Courtown whilst we were taken to the Carnival there.
Anyways one evening in the Auhust Bank Holiday week, Denis was being volunteer MC in the bar of the hotel for a sing song he had got going.
Half way through this sing song, a big fancy car pulls up outside the hotel, and walked in only David Bowie (And to the best of my knowledge it was Denis Desmond of MCD who was with him).
Bowie sat listening to the people singing in the bar. Dennis MC'ing didn't have a clue who David Bowie was would you believe.
At one stage a lad had finished singing, and when Dennis was turning to the lad who agreed to be next, to tell him it was his turn, David began to sing a song. Dennis turned round to him in a flash scolded him., told him it was someone else's turn to sing, and that he should wait his turn like everyone else.
The lad beside tugged at his trousers and said to him "What the hell are ya doing, that's Bowie! " Dennis replied "Who??" 'It's David Bowie the famous singer' To which Dennis replied "I don't care who or what he is, it wasn't his turn, and he has to wait in line!"
I seem to a short time after a piece in The Evening Herald that said Bowie had gone to Wexford for the night, and as far as I recall stayed in Marfield House that night. So I finally believed the story featuring Bowie Gene had told my Mother and us the afternoon after the night before!!!
