Turn that off….now!….. I was listening to ‘Rio’ - by Duran Duran on headphones after lights out when, ‘Fat Harry’, came into the dorm. You didn’t mess with Mr Millar, great History teacher, a favourite at Armagh Royal, tough but fair. Still, this didn’t seem fair at all, headphones were allowed, he’d picked on me that night. Next morning at breakfast I realised he’d been kind, making sure I didn’t hear the news on the radio - dad had been in a car crash out west, near Ballina, en route to our Achill house.…

Newry, Co. Down | N.Ireland

 

Writing songs starts here….
 

Sunshine for rainy days

I’ve been songwriting since I was 15, maybe earlier. My mum used to say I was singing complete songs before my second birthday, before I could structure full sentences! So I rolled out in a pushchair to sing for adults as a novelty act. It’s probably not as rare as it seemed to them. Music touches the depths of us in a special way doesn’t it? I'm sure when our eyes have faded, and our short term memory mists over, it’s music…

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