Culture That Made Me: Niall O'Flaherty of the Sultans of Ping 

The singer with the Cork band picks some of his touchstone references ahead of a series of homecoming gigs 

 Niall O'Flaherty of the Sultans of Ping.

Niall O’Flaherty, 52, was born in Brighton. He grew up in Carrigaline, Cork. He’s the lead singer of Sultans of Ping, a band he co-founded in 1988. The group released Casual Sex in the Cineplex in 1993, the first of three albums.

The band still play occasional gigs, but O’Flaherty also lectures about the history of European political thought at King’s College London.