Meet the Cork musician who didn't let his cerebral palsy stand in the way of recording an album
CILLIAN McSweeney doesn’t get stage fright. “I just get a few butterflies and once the lights go up, the nerves go and I enjoy it every time,” the 27-year-old Cork musician says, via email.
McSweeney, who is about to release his debut EP, Unique, is conducting an interview by email because he can’t communicate using speech. Nor can he walk, or control most of the muscle spasms that rack his body: He was born with severe cerebral palsy. Yet with the aid of assistive technologies, he writes lyrics, composes, and performs his own songs, a window into his inner world that would otherwise have little outlet.
