Róisín Ingle
speaker
7,108 appearances
22 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Róisín Ingle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But this was no X Factor, just a motley crew of teenagers, most of whom couldn't play instruments, looking to play music together.
Ivan McCormack was 13.
I asked him what he remembered about that meeting.
Seven people crowded into the kitchen of Larry's semi-detached house at 60 Rosemount Avenue.
Larry behind the drums, a boy from a couple of years above him in school called Paul Hewson, Dave Evans and his older brother Dick who had built a guitar between them in the shed, Adam Clayton with a bass guitar that he couldn't play in a black plastic bin bag.
What was it like from Ivan's perspective?
That evening, 13-year-old Ivan McCormack did what he did every night.
He wrote in his diary, which is how we know the exact date of the meeting in Larry's kitchen.
This is what Ivan wrote that day, 50 years ago on September 25th, 1976.
After Larry put the note up, a few people had said to him, do you know your man Paul Hughes and he plays guitar?
In fact, he couldn't really play guitar, but everybody knew who he was.
He turned up to Larry's house on the back of his friend Reggie's Yamaha 100 motorbike without an instrument.
And it didn't take long before Larry discovered the kind of character he was dealing with.
Here's a clip from Larry from back in the year 2000 discussing the cacophony in his kitchen that day.
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So let's get to know this Paul Hewson character.
Paul Hewson and his brother Norman grew up in Cedarwood Road, Ballymun.
Four miles, two bus trips and a whole world for Martijn.
Childhood friend and eventual member of the Virgin Prunes, Gavin Friday, takes us back there.
Those are Gavin's bracelets you can hear jangling away there.
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