Hi!
I need someone to pretend to be a toupee maker from Killarney named Tadhg to mess with my mum and I was hoping the good people of r/dublin might be able to help me....
Long story short:
I am Norwegian, I live in Norway, my whole family are Norwegian.
2 years ago my dad, sister and I went on a road trip around Ireland and loved it. Great road trip, great people, great food, beautiful places. Ahead of this trip my sister and I decided to play a prank on our dad (M55). It started with me making a random joke about my dad maybe getting a toupee whilst on our road trip. Then as the trip neared, my sister and I brought it back up again. With absolutely no discussion and going off on the pure improv skills you learn by growing up in a family which loves to joke around, we invented a fictional Irish man named Tadhg, who was a toupee maker from Killarney. My sister claimed to have found this man on tiktok and having befriended him. We kept this bit going our entire Ireland trip, even begging to drive back to Killarney after we "forgot about our appointment".
You would think the bit died with the trip, but somehow it got even more elaborate and crazy.
Around Christmas of 2024, my sister and I decided to tell our mum (our parents are divorced) about Tadhg the toupee maker from Killarney- going as far as to tell her he was coming to spend Christmas with us. The story got out of hand and we somehow made up the fact that Tadhg moonlights as a DJ, is in his 50s and has a difficult relationship with his brother. Now my mum 100% understood that we were joking. But once again we kept up with the bit. Giving mum sporadic updates which ended with Tadhg having issues with his rental car and being unable to make it to where we were spending Christmas. The bit went as far as me buying a Christmas present to my mum from Tadhg. For Christmas 2025 we continued with the bit, this time sending an Irish postcard to my mum in which Tadhg deeply apologized for not making it for Christmas. This did in fact make mum question the whole thing a bit.
Now, my sister and I loved Ireland so much that we are going back to Dublin the first week of July- this time with our mum who has never been!
Would there be any possibility at all of anyone knowing or being a man in their 50s/60s who would be able to meet us and pretend to be Tadgh the toupee maker from Killarney? My mum has no clue about Irish accents so you do not have to be from Killarney, you just have to know the backstory and be willing to show up for the bit. It can be a brief meeting such as running into us on the street, or we could grab a coffee and you could tell my mum about your DJing.
I know it is a long shot and a ridiculous story, but it would be the funniest thing to ever happen to any of us if it were to become reality.
Much love,
Hedda