Originally from Wexford town, where his father was an optician and jeweller on Main Street, he came to Dublin in the late 1960s.
Around 1970, he was a member of the poetry-and-music group Tara Telephone, in which he composed, sang, and played guitar.
He played to a full house in Wexford's Arts Centre on his homecoming gig in July 2012, one night after his sell out show with Christy Moore in Galway.
I Love The Noise It Makes and Window On The World have received a favourable reception in both Ireland[1] and abroad.
[3] One of their children, Kevin Sinnott, accidentally drowned while swimming at university in Georgia, US on 21 September 2009.