As tributes continue to pour in for Christy Dignam – following the sad news of the iconic Irish singer's death, aged 63 – we're revisiting a classic inte.
More than thirty years ago five young musicians emerged from a disused pigsty hidden away on a piece of North Dublin wasteland after creating a debut album that would become a classic in Irish rock history.
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The band literally went from living in Finglas and Ballymun, and signing on the dole, to living a lifestyle of limousines and fine hotels. “One day me and Billy signed on the labour on Gardiner Street,” Christy would remember.