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<p>Hi to anyone who has come here over the last few months and was looking for news/updates.My apologies for not keeping the site up to date,I've been so busy with family events and commitments I havn't had a chance to visit and update.I'll be updating music and news in the next couple of weeks.Thanks for visiting and stay safe and well.

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<p>Happy New Year to everyone and I hope this year sees you staying healthy and happy and that its not as harsh as last year was for most.
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<p>Where to start...for a few months now I've been in contact with John Hagan a journalist originally from Ireland but now living in Tasmania.We got chatting following a very interesting article of his in a national sunday newspaper here,(there's a link to the article on the links page)..long story short I had written a song called Sky and Sea which echoed very strongly the subject he was talking about ,namely the plight of those that had been transported to Australia/Van Diemen's land in the 19th century.I…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6160742/big-news-of-a-great-project-coming-this-way-from-tasmania">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>I didn't want to jinx anything by mentioning this before now but I've just received confirmation that the song of mine that i'm most proud of writing , "The Sky Belongs To Dreamers"  is to be included on John McDermott's (ex irish Tenor) new album to be released later this month.The album is called Journeys and details can be found at www.johnmcdermott.com
John has done a fantastic version of the song,its very beautiful.
This song was first covered in 2007 and is sung beautifully and to this day  by my…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6160741/a-great-development">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>I've spent the last few weeks, as everyone has I'm sure,reading about the banks and the financial institutions being bailed out by the government or should I say by the tax payers and ordinary citizens of Ireland
It just seems beyond belief to me that we are rewarding incompetence and gross negligence and furthermore underwriting any future mismanagement by guaranteeing bailout funds and getting very little in return for it.
No-one seems to be responsible for the mess we're in or falling on their sword,…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6160740/the-day-has-yet-to-come-a-new-song">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>It was fantastic to watch Barack Obama become the 44th President of America yesterday.It was also such a huge relief to see George Bush and Cheney exit the White House.It will take years to repair what they've visited upon America and the world."By their fruits ye shall know them" and the destruction and removal of trust ,social responsibility and honesty in public service and discourse has been almost total after 8 years of their catastrophic policies of division and discord yet strangely Obama wouldnt…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6160739/a-new-beginning-so-much-to-repair">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Hi to all who are passing through...I hope 2009 is good to you and kinder to  all esp.in the light of how 2008 ended up.Its a rough rough time for many and we're in very uncertain times so let's hope for a year that brings us all closer as family and friends and let's also hope for a year that marks a turnaround in terms of it being, if not the end of, then a huge move away from the "me me me" selfishness that has poisoned society since the early 80's.We're in a bind but we can fix it if wise heads prevail…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6160738/happy-new-year">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>This is great news for me personally and a great honour.I met with the playright and actor Aidan Dooley earlier in the summer while he was doing  a three week sold out run in West Cork of his incredible play "TOM CREAN ANTARCTIC EXPLORER"
Aidan  has performed the play all over the world and won awards for it.
I saw it first in the Everyman Palace in Cork in January of 2008 and was hugely impressed by Aidan's writing and performance and his ability to command and hold the attention of everyone in the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6160737/tom-crean">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Louder Than the Drums of War Vol. 1 is the very first project under the banner of an organisation I created in March of this year called  Artists for Healing and all of the proceeds from it are going to two charities: Aware www.aware.ie and the Red Cross ( Iraq division) www.redcross.ie
For all the info and sound clips etc on that please go to www.artistsforhealing.com.
Also please check out the Aware website should you wish to buy a copy through them. 
There will be 3 Cd's in the series of "Louder…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/news/blog/6160736/louder-than-the-drums-of-war-vol1">Read more</a></span></div>
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