Honours graduate who in 1986 started his professional career as a music teacher.
After one year he decided to pursue his talents as a musician and composer in local piano bars at home as well as in Canada and Europe, where he travelled for a year.
He has toured with Van Morrison as a piano player and features extensively on Van Morrison's album Hymns to the Silence.
The song finished a disappointing 14th place with 44 points; Norway won the contest, breaking the three years Ireland staged the contest.
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