Pogues to pick up lifetime achievement award

The Pogues, famed for controversial frontman Shane McGowan’s antics, will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards, organisers said tonight.

The band were first formed by McGowan, famous for his rotten teeth and hard drinking, Spider Stacey, Jem Finer and James Fearnley in Kings Cross London in 1982.