Being late to the party hasn't stopped singer of the year Máire Ní Chéileachair

Cork woman Máire Ní Chéileachair started singing in public at age 40, but will collect her singer of the year prize at this weekend’s Gradam Ceoil awards, writes Pet O’Connell.

MÁIRE Ní Chéileachair may not have plucked up courage to sing in public until she was nearly 40, but since then, she has wasted no time in establishing herself as one of Ireland’s foremost sean-nós singers.