Tiredness is something musician, composer, choir director, broadcaster, father, and grandfather Peadar Ó Riada always accepted as an occupational hazard.
“I never listened in my life to tiredness – you just curse it and get on with it,” he says. “Because of the forward motion in life, you keep going.” However, in the months prior to last August’s Féile na Laoch festival, which he initiated in 2011 to honour his father Seán Ó Riada and other “cultural heroes”, Peadar realised he was experiencing a different fatigue.
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