The shape I'm in: Seán Keane, singer

IN John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, Mexican pearl diver, Kino, basks in the ‘song of the family’. On the other side of the ocean, traditional Irish singer, Seán Keane, also has a family song, titled ‘Home’.

‘My footsteps carry me away, but, in my mind, I’m always going home’, runs a line from his favourite melody.

It comes as no surprise that he lives — “about five miles from both Tuam and Headford” — close to his siblings.