Eoin Sweeney
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76 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Eoin Sweeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He grew up on Cedarwood Road, cheek to jowl with Bono and Bono's family.
He was one of 10, his brother's Googie, his brother's Strongman, both of the Virgin Prunes, his younger brother's Paul, who was the...
There's a great bit actually describes in the movie, kind of wandering down into Leicester Square and suddenly he sees this massive poster in 1979, 1980 of a boy and realises that's my brother, who was the front cover of the debut U2 album, Boy.
So the Rowan family and the Hewson's grew up next to each other.
Goch Rowan, Andy Goch Rowan, it's very poignant description.
very deftly directed by Morris Sweeney, no relation.
It is about his descent into heroin addiction and his recovery from it.
He inspired not one, not two, but three U2 songs, principally Bad, as the title meant, but also Running to Stand Still on the Joshua Tree and then later Raised by Wolves.
He was a prodigious youth.
But he was a bright boy who got waylaid by heroin in the scourge of the 70s and 80s.
It is very affecting.
It begins with that quote from Luke that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than 99 who are in no need of repentance.
And that is the story in a nutshell.
Well worth watching.
for a binge Owen how much World Cup are you watching so far maybe some recommendations for the casual punter of matches jeepers or no anything I got up well the internet Twitter is doing a great job or X whatever it's called there is an amalgamated count of fans in America principally in America but obviously it's in Canada and Mexico as well but you know that famous footage now that's gone around the world of the Scottish man playing the bagpipes at half six in the morning outside your man's Massachusetts Airbnb
And he subsequently got a ticket to the match that I stayed up to watch at two o'clock this morning.
They won 1-0 against Haiti.
There's just lots of crack.
The punditry is a bit sombre.
And I think it's budgetary restrictions as well because of the geographical spread of the games.
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