Joe Chester  thankful for small mercies after missing Nice attack

After just missing the attack in Nice, Joe Chester is happy to be making music, writes Steve Cummins.

THERE was a time when Joe Chester wanted to be a priest. The acclaimed songwriter, producer and occasional member of The Waterboys says, that as a teenager growing up in Dublin, Catholicism, and not rock music, was his religion.

“I was very religious. I would say that I was devout until I was in my early 20s,” the 44-year-old confides, over tea in Dublin’s Library Bar.