Before they were stars: How many can you recognise?

Below are childhood pictures of some of Munster's world-famous actors and musicians.  Answers at the bottom of  the page 
Before they were stars: How many can you recognise?
The lad on the right would turn up like a Bad Penny on the world stage!

Left: Butter wouldn’t melt! A medal winner for Cork at the All-Ireland finals of the Community Games in Athlone in 2010, he’d go on to play one of the city’s most famous rogues. 

Right: He’d go on to became a famous musician, but at 13 this was his first encounter with the media. The picture was taken on the roof of this newspaper’s office in Academy Street in Cork in 1961 after he’d won a talent competition.

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