Seán Ó Sé: The real voice of Ireland

Cork tenor and retired teacher Seán Ó Sé has overcome cancer and recorded a new album, says Pet O’Connell

ASKING Cork tenor Seán Ó Sé whether, in his 79th year, he has any plans to decelerate his singing career, would be a tricky question for any journalist to pose.

Whatever about having the temerity to suggest such a notion or the possibility of causing offence to a man recently recovered from colon cancer treatment; there’s a far more tangible difficulty facing the writer — and that’s how to catch up with Seán Ó Sé.