100 years on from his birth, we remember Frank Sinatra doing it his way playing Dublin in 1989
WHEN news hit the streets that Frank Sinatra was going to perform his first ever concerts in Ireland — two nights at Dublin’s Lansdowne Road stadium in early May 1989 — a fever took hold in the country.
“We were undecided on whether we would put the second show on sale before Christmas or after Christmas but because the first one sold so quick we put it on sale immediately,” says Oliver Barry, the impresario who lured the old crooner to town.
