Mary Coughlan is an Irish jazz and folk singer best known for her rendition of Love Will Tear Us Apart, The Magdalen Laundry and I Want To Be Seduced. Her career kicked off at the age of thirty with the release of the independently produced and financed album Tired and Emotional. She suddenly became a massive star and her career sky rocketed from there but due to severe mismanagement she lost her house, her car and her record deal with WEA and began to drink heavily. Her drinking was also connected to her abuse by two family members at a young age which led a suicide attempt at the age of 15 and her incarceration in a mental home. In 1994 she received treatment for her alcoholism and since then has released many immensely popular albums including After The Fall (her American Debut), The House Of Ill Repute and Scars On The Calender. After many phone calls back and forth we eventually met up one Monday morning in The Central Hotel in Dublin. Mary was just so open and warm hearted. It was a pleasure to meet and chat with her.

Christy Dignam is the lead singer of the popular Irish rock band Aslan. His career of over twenty-five years has been characterised by numerous successes on the Irish charts such as "This Is" and "Feel No Shame" as well as recurring problems with drug addiction and recovery. Christy grew up in the North Dublin suburb of Finglas. He studied the classical art of bel canto singing with teacher Frank Merriman at the Bel Canto House School of Singing in Dublin. At the age of six, he was raped by a neighbour. This continued to occur over a three-year period until, at the age of nine, Dignam sought help from his best friend's brother, a man in his twenties. During the meeting with his best friend's brother, Dignam explained his situation and he was then raped by this man as well. Dignam later suggested his drug addiction may have resulted from the psychological trauma caused by these events. I met Christy at his home in Dublin and was made more than welcome by him and his wife Kathryn. I could have listened to him all day and I'm sure you will feel the same. He is a national treasure or as Bono said from the stage when they played at the Three Arena recently he is "The Angel Of Dublin"