Best Irish rock band

[Professor Toffee]

I lived around the corner from the Corrs in Dundalk.
Im a good bit older than them but was aware of the girls when they were starting out (Jim not so much)
My wife and I were in a pizza restaurant in Donegal town about 7-8 years ago when we saw Caroline (the drummer) at another table with her hubby.
I was chatting with my wife as to whether to say hello but decided that she wouldnt have a clue who I was and left it
I went to the loo and came back and Caroline was chatting to my wife at our table, she'd come over to check if i was actually (name deleted to protect the innocent) as she remembered me well from Dundalk
so I vote for the Corrs

 

[summerisle]

Excellent programme on the growth of blues and soul music in the early 60s.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Soul of Ireland

Sean Rocks discovers how soul music and blues first gained an audience in 1960's Ireland.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[dow1978]

Westlife

 

[PITA]

The coors

Very well named band.

 

[aazak]

These are chronological compilations of Irish alternative releases (1977-1999) few if any of which troubled the charts, in other words hours of music you will not be hearing on your radio any time soon.

Irish Nuggets: Original Artefacts From The Irish Alternative Music Scene 1977-99

These are strange times. The last weeks round these parts have been brightened listening to the two new installments of the excellent Irish Nuggets series. These are chronological compilations of I…

fanningsessions.wordpress.com

 

[JammyP]

No please don’t get me wrong I love British rock band but just has to be connect to the Republic of Ireland... for this particular discussion.

The century of debate about where the boundary of the republic ends is not raised in the thread title. Northern Ireland is, surely, irrefutably part of the island, and so 'Irish', You didn't mention any border.
Good thread though

 

[JammyP]

Excellent programme on the growth of blues and soul music in the early 60s.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Soul of Ireland

Sean Rocks discovers how soul music and blues first gained an audience in 1960's Ireland.

www.bbc.co.uk

Raises questions about what is a rock band. A show band can do the pops and Irish dancing

 

[Death]

The century of debate about where the boundary of the republic ends is not raised in the thread title. Northern Ireland is, surely, irrefutably part of the island, and so 'Irish', You didn't mention any border.
Good thread though

Im just fewmin the joker who started the thread didn’t think to add Aslan to the poll.

 

[BluePeadar]

Smokie

 

[No8Bally]

I vote Daniel O`Donnell or from my youth, the man in the rocking chair, Val Hooligan

 

[Groucho]

Lynott

Legend

 

[Kurt.]

The Dubliners