Showband legend Joe Mac ‘humbled’ at City Hall honour

He may be 80 but music legend Joe Mac is still clowning around, as he showed last night when he was guest of honour at a special civic reception in Cork City Hall.

The ex-Dixies drummer said he was “honoured and humbled” to be accorded the reception for his birthday because, at his age, the presents were “usually a stairlift, wheelchair, nappies, and a voucher for the crematorium”.

He said he had many happy memories playing gigs with the Dixies in City Hall and pointed out that his father, John, worked a stonemason on its reconstruction in the mid-1930s.