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Artist
Donna McCaul
12+ albums
popirishEurovisionfemale vocalistsEurovision Song Contest
about
Donna McCaul (born 30 May 1984) Donna was born in Athlone, County Westmeath. She was raised in a family of six children. Her parents are separated and her father, Gerry, left the family when Donna was very young. Donna experienced illnesses from a young age, and had her first panic attack when she was seven. She felt claustrophobia at school. She started her career by touring in a band with Doc Carroll. Her favourite song is From This Moment by Shania Twain. She sang at Our Lady's Bower Secondary in Athlone, and at the age of eighteen, was victorious in a competition called Teen Popstars. She recorded an album of cover versions at Rosemount Studios in Moate and released it locally. Donna was outed by the News of the World. Her mother informed her and she then came out to her family ahead of what she later described as "a very difficult few months really". She was considered perhaps the most high profile Irish woman to be a public lesbian. Donna had previously been engaged for four years. She is with her partner of four years, Lauren White, a 23-year-old singer, songwriter, musician and actor from Dublin. Barry Egan in the Sunday Independent said, "Donna's success on Fáilte Towers perhaps shows just how un-homophobic Ireland is: that an openly gay woman went so far in a show where the Irish public's votes decided who stayed and who was booted out says possibly more about the reality of Ireland 2008 than anything on the so-called reality TV show". Donna has said that young p
