Barry Egan

1 week ago | independent.ie | Barry Egan

Boney M’s Maizie Williams on fame and taking Brezhnev’s private plane to play in Russia Born on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1961, Maizie Ursula Williams moved to the UK when she was nine. In 1973 she won a Birmingham Beauty Pageant. In 1974, she was one of the original members of Boney M when she joined in West Germany. Guided by producer Frank Farian, they sold 100 million records with euro-disco anthems.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Barry Egan

The four-piece talk growing up on the road, girlfriends and how not to fall out with each other Bono was asked recently how he felt about his son Elijah following in his footsteps as the lead singer with alternative indie rock four-piece Inhaler. “In a way, the last thing you want anybody you love to do is to put themselves out there,” the U2 frontman said.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Barry Egan

The famed director on ‘In America’ and wanting to write a movie based on his own storyJim Sheridan’s In America is about an Irish family who make their way to New York City in the 1980s without proper legal documentation, looking for a fresh start. It is also a true story – Sheridan’s own story of a hard life in New York over eight years. His two daughters Kirsten and Naomi are played by real-life sisters Sarah and Emma Bolger.

3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Barry Egan

The Ryans and the Hutches were neighbours in Clontarf. A chance meeting with Gerry Hutch’s son, Jason, saw a plan put into action ‘Are you on the sunbeds, son?” That was Gerry Hutch’s first sentence to Rex Ryan in Wheatfield Prison in September 2022. It was a month before the start of The Monk’s 52-week trial at the Special Criminal Court for the murder of David Byrne at Dublin’s Regency Hotel in 2016 – part of a criminal feud with the Kinahan Cartel that cost 18 people their lives.

3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Barry Egan

Brendan Murphy on the real girl who inspired The 4 of Us’ hit Mary: ‘She broke my heart and she didn’t even know it’Murphy talks about writing the band’s most beloved song in 1989Brendan Murphy on stage. Photo: Mick Hutson/RedfernsSitting on a bench looking out over the sea, near his home in Carlingford, Brendan Murphy is remembering as a teenager in Newry, a girl that he never spoke to, or was ever in the company of. She broke his heart. Decades have passed.