Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof is bringing the band back to Cork, and feels their music deserves more respect, writes Marc O’Sullivan

TREVOR Sargent is unique. No other political leader alive can get a cheer for simply mentioning organic wine in the first paragraph of the opening address of an annual party convention.

THEY were born six years and 10 miles apart in a city depressed and repressed, with a chip on its shoulder and uncertainty in its soul.