Christy Dignam: Born in the sixties with a healthy disrespect for authorities growing up
He previously told how he grew up in a house where his mother was religious but his father wasn’t.
He said there were times when they didn’t have enough money for food but she always had this shilling for the priest. Their musical journey began in 1986 when their first singe This Is shot them onto the charts after it was played first on 2FM. They followed up with their album Feel No Shame, which went to number one in the Irish album charts.
“When you got up in the morning you could not do anything until you got the heroin into ya, that’s the kind of way I operated.“Imagine you are on a wheel and the wheel is spinning along, you take the heroin, and it slows it down, you can deal with life, but as the heroin wears off, the wheel starts getting faster until its spinning again, until you need heroin again".
"I couldn't remember any of my own abuse, I had completely blocked it all out, and me Da looked at me as if to say it's a shame we did not love ya enough."I explained that it was not like that, I left the house, looked at the hall door, and the whole thing came flooding back to me. While Dignam has spent much time facing his demons over the past three decades, life threw him another devastating curveball in 2013 when he was diagnosed with incurable cancer.
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