Folk legend Liam Clancy was now reunited with his brothers and bandmates after a passionate life that was lived to the full, his funeral service heard today.

Folk legend Liam Clancy has died today, aged 74, his manager said.

“I suppose he was my brother in many ways.”

IT WAS in 1967, as the beginnings of the Troubles were brewing in the North that Tommy Makem penned his trademark song Four Green Fields.

The acclaimed folk musician Tommy Makem has died in the United States at the age of 74.