This much I know: Finbar Wright, musician

Finbar Wright celebrates his 60th birthday and 27 years of success in the National Concert Hall on April 30.

Loneliness drove me out of the priesthood. I am a firm believer in fate and karma. What you send out comes back.

My first memory of performing is standing on stage in Ballinspittle, age seven, with my brother Denis singing ‘The Merry Ploughboy’. My mother instructed us to sing that song.