Pretty Happy about memories of Cork's unique punk scene 

The emerging Cork band have made a documentary that pays homage to the city's music scene in an earlier age 
Pretty Happy about memories of Cork's unique punk scene 

Finbarr Donnelly of Nun Attax on stage at the Arcadia in Cork in the early 1980s. Picture: Ciarán Ó Tuama 

Four young men seated in a row: scrappy, a bit edgy, a distant look in their eyes. The portrait is of the late punk poet Finbarr Donnelly and his band, Nun Attax. It will be familiar to anyone who has walked Cork’s Grand Parade in recent times.

For the members of local punk trio Pretty Happy, the mural, unveiled in August 2020, was a mystery in plain sight. 

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