Dermot Kennedy: ‘I have toyed with the idea of living in Nashville or New York but nothing appeals more than being at home’

Notre Dame Stadium, Indiana – home to the ‘Fighting Irish’ college football team – is a massive concrete bowl, and among the most capacious sporting arenas in America. If Dermot Kennedy ever needed a moment to take stock and get a sense of how big he has become, he could do worse than recall the evening last September when he walked onto that Notre Dame stage, the approving roars of 90,000 people stinging his ears.