My Life with Eoin Coughlan: 'We played on stage with Robbie Williams in Croke Park'

Brian and I are lucky to have performed with some of Ireland’s most revered musicians, from Damien Dempsey to Paddy Casey.

Musician Eoin Coughlan of the Oars at home in Ballynora, Cork. Picture: David Creedon

When Robbie Williams invited us to perform with him in front of 83,000 people in Croke Park I asked myself the same question any musician with an eight-year-old son would.

It was the mother of all predicaments. “Who are we going to get to babysit?” As it happened my wife was already going to the concert.