‘Irish music has a place in our souls and our hearts’ announced Ryan Tubridy during last night’s Trad session on the Late Late Show.
The host was joined on the show for some live music and conversation with stars of Irish traditional music including Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Zoë Conway and Frankie Gavin.
The usually private host gave a rare insight into his personal life as he shared how traditional Irish music helped him to grieve his late father, and he empathised with those who had lost loved ones this week.
He told fiddle player Frankie Gavin: ‘I remember well the morning he died and what got me through that morning, driving around and doing errands and so on, was listening to Irish laments of all things in the car because he was a
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