In the name of the Fada: Con Ó Drisceoil on his new collection of comic songs

After a musical education that involved UCC and the Phoenix Bar, trad stalwart Con ‘Fada’ Ó Drisceoil has released a new collection of comic songs, writes Pet O’Connell

‘RHYMING becomes almost a disease eventually,” songwriter Con Ó Drisceoil admits. Indeed so well-versed is the retired schoolteacher in the symptoms of this condition, that some might conclude his own affliction to be permanent and incurable.