He says he started drinking when he was 14 or 15 christymoore
The folk legend opened up about his road to recovery and feeling shame over missing gigs and performing drunk. Read more: Inside Christy Moore's life as a granddad, trauma from father’s death and banking career “The drink was available and it was very nice. Then there was the feis ceoils. The old feis ceoil culture was very different to the ceoils now.He started tasting alcohol when he was “very young” and shares there wasn’t much drinking in his house.
“I used to stay with my granny a lot and she had sherry. I used to take little drops out of the sherry. “I could be in Galway on Thursday night and I’d miss the Friday night gig, I’d miss the Saturday night gig. I’d be a bit ashamed of that.”“Sometimes people come up with old recordings from gigs from years ago and when I hear them I’d be embarrassed - in some of them I’d be drunk and in some of them I’d be stoned. It’s shameful.”
“To be still here and to look back on it and just give thanks that I’m no longer in that dark place.”“My main rock bottom was that I had a heart attack. I was in the intensive care and I said to myself, ‘If I get out of here, I’ll never drink again’.
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