The Dubliners

Back in 1962, the band finally decided to properly "give it a go" instead of just playing in bars and since then, they've worked with some of music's biggest names - everyone from U2 and the Pogues, to Christy Moore and Imelda May. Founded in O'Donoghues Pub on Merrion Row in Dublin by Barney McKenna, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly and Ciaran Bourke, before inviting fiddle player John Sheahan and guitarist Bob Lynch to join their ranks, the Dubliners felt it was now fitting to go back to their roots and hold their tribute session in a pub. Read More

THE LAST OF the original Dubliners, Barney McKenna, packed a venue for one last time yesterday, as many hundreds of family members, friends and fans squeezed into St Patrick's Church in Trim, Co Meath, yesterday for his funeral Mass. The congregation, which was led by his sister Marie, brother Seán Óg and his partner, Tina Hove, included President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina; the Taoiseach's aide de camp, Comdt Michael Treacy; Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams; economist Colm McCarthy, former Siptu general secretary Des Geraghty; and mourners who had travelled from Norway, Holland, France and elsewhere across Europe. Read More

Michael Howard, a classical guitarist who was with Mr. McKenna when he died, told Irish and British newspapers that they were at the kitchen table when Mr. McKenna seemed to have "nodded off."Read More