Funnily enough when i was at home in ireland I went to a concert in the national concert hall on st patricks day last and there was a great line up of mucicians including noel kenny and tom macdonagh...they did not speak unfortunately as they were great showmen back in the pre river dance days when Irish music wasn't so respected and musicians like them really earned their money. They weren't so well known in Ireland at the time but toured all over. Right enough I remember declan macneilis being killed and that spelled the end of the band. I was a great fan of theirs...and i know they recorded a record which was being made at the time of declans death...that was so sad...he was beaten up otside a gig in limerick. I would love to hear that album though they were one of the best if not the best live spontaneous band of irish musicians i ever saw. I had heard that noel wemt walkabout after declans death so i was delighted to see him in good health and he played a great duet with paul mcgrattan...in fact all the mucicians that paddys night were the same era...kevin glackin, sean potts etc...if you had lived in dublin in the early eighties these lads were all around ..great funny times....noel kenny also played with paddy keenan for a while
Marie Gilmartin