Window on the world: Declan Sinnott releases a second solo record

It took decades for ace collaborator Declan Sinnott to finally go it alone for an album, but just three years to produce another one, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

DECLAN SINNOTT waited a while to go solo. He has been making music for 50 years. He was a member of Horslips and of Moving Hearts, and a foil for Christy Moore for 30 years.

Only now has he released his second solo album, Window on the World, a collection of songs that mixes the mournful and the merry in lyrics as clear as water. It has been three years since his first album, I Love the Noise it Makes. It took so long to go solo because of a lack of confidence and also because he was finally asked to do it.