This much I know: Brian Flanagan, singer/songwriter

I ran out of songs I enjoyed singing so I began writing my own.

I had started out as a singer. I grew up in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, and began singing traditional music in pubs. It developed as a passion more than anything else. I had various other jobs — working in pubs, furniture shops, even a bath factory.

But then, as a result of a broken heart, I picked up a guitar and wrote my first song.