'The first time my family saw me, I was singing about who they might be on The Late Late Show'

Kieran McGuinness of husband-wife duo Driven Snow and former Delorentos member, tells Helen O’Callaghan about the October night in 2014 when he performed on the Late Late Show, shared the news with family and friends that he and Emily were expecting their first baby – while at the same time, unknown to him, his birth family watched him perform a song about who they might be

Kieran McGuinness: 'I’d never gone to look for my birth parents. I have parents, amazing people. I was protective of them, never felt I was missing anything.' Picture: Moya Nolan

When you’re brought up with your birth family and everything happens as would generally be expected in life, you somehow don’t see the threads that connect us all.

But as a person born of chance — my birth parents meeting, giving me up, my parents adopting me — there’s an insane amount of randomness to my existence.