Georgie Fame

Ronan O’Rahilly (79) set up the pirate radio station on a ship in 1964

At 64, Dalkey-born singer Alison O’Donnell has just released her second solo album and has no plans to slow down her long and fascinating musical journey

The yarragh is a sense of the song as a thing in itself and, as Van Morrison once put it, ‘Is the song singing you?’