Shane MacGowan, who has died aged 65, was the truculent, hard-living lead singer of the Pogues; he was revered as much for his excessive alcohol consumption as for his dark, unsparing but lyrical vision of Irish life.
What have Joe Duffy and and Fethard on Sea housewife Johanne Powell got in common with Paralympian Jason Smyth, best-selling author Cathy Kelly, billionaire John Magnier and singer Tommy Fleming?