Cathal Coughlan is coming back to his hometown

CATHAL Coughlan has never been one for tiptoeing gently into the night, writes Ed Power

At the helm of bands Microdisney and Fatima Mansions through the 1980s and early 1990s, he garnered a reputation as the angriest man in rock.

Apocryphal stories of Coughlan taking the Cork-to-Dublin train wearing a priest’s habit and flashing red mirror-shades are legion; every article about the singer is by law required to reference Fatima Mansions’ 1992 U2 support gig in Milan, at which he did rude things with a plastic Virgin Mary.