Jay Boland

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469 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Liveline · Death of Glen Hansard · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

And myself and him and Jim had spent a day shooting the breeze and having to hang, as Glenn would call it.

And the music is fantastic.

But the Glenn that I knew is the Glenn that's coming across on your show, Ciarán.

It's the Glenn of this world called metal.

And he often referred to this in his concerts.

And what he meant by that was, it's an old Irish word for community.

And it goes back to this theory of people coming together to do big things.

Farmers coming together to skin the hay.

People in rural Ireland coming together to build a house for somebody.

Metal coming together.

Glenn didn't do politics, although he knew politicians.

He didn't do politics.

Glenn's politics was...

just people coming together to do good things.

And he called that Mel.

And that's who he was.

And Glenn could be anywhere.

Glenn could be playing in Australia.

I was talking earlier to his great friend, Mark Stanley, who was the drummer in The Frames.

I've recovered from cancer.

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