It’s only rock ’n’ roll but they loved it

IT was as it was meant to be. Every classic number rolled into a colourful night of high-pitched singing, gritty guitar riffs and lyrics you’d sang at every party worth remembering.

The Rolling Stones lit up Slane on a day that eventually stopped raining. And just in time too.

With Start Me Up, the once bad-boy now veteran-rocker Mick Jagger led the band through a medley of tunes. You still look as wonderful as you did 25 years ago, he told the 80,000 packed crowd in a clearly-practiced tribute as Gaeilge.