Shane MacGowan’s last wish couldn’t have been more fitting – he wanted his mourners to have a marathon drunken night on him.
The Pogues’ punk poet, who died aged 65 from pneumonia after months of ill heath, is said to have left €10k behind the bar of The Thatched Cottage in Nenagh, the tiny town in Co Tipperary where his star-studded funeral was held on Friday 8 December.
