Music Man: Why singer Phil Coulter is still touring in his 70s

When I was in my 20s and 30s I probably thought that anyone over 60 was at death’s door. It’s funny how your perspectives on age change with advancing years,” says multi-award winning singer-songwriter Phil Coulter.

The Wicklow-based musical legend doesn’t give that door much thought, however, now that he is in his mid-70s: “I’ve had a good life. I can honestly say that so far, I’ve never felt that I’ve done all that I want to do, or achieved everything that I wanted to. I still have lots of unfulfilled ambitions and dreams — and I’m not finished yet.

“I deliberately don’t consider my own mortality too often or too deeply and while I know that death is an inevitability I prefer not to dwell on it. I know what my last thoughts will not be: ‘Is that all there is?’,” he tells Feelgood.