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Christy Dignam had a heart of gold. In December 2015, after Sinead O’Connor was admitted to hospital after revealing in a post on Facebook she had “taken an overdose”, Christy and his wife Kathryn offered O’Connor a room at their Dublin home so she could recover.
The Saw Doctors are on stage again and playing a summer show at home, called — perhaps inevitably — The West’s Awake
Cork's Greatest Records: Cypress Mine's Exit Trashtown and its early DIY attitude B-Side The Leeside: In 1987, the ambitious indie outfit decided to take matters into their own hands and release an album, albeit with the help of a manager who'd go on to find fame himself in a totally different field Cypress Mine: Ian Olney, Mark Healy, Ciarán Ó Tuama, Denis O'Mullane (Skoda). Picture: Jim McCarthy Thu, 25 Feb, 2021 - 08:30 Ellie O’Byrne When a young band scrapes together the money to record a self-released debut album against the stultifying background of a small city in the throes o...