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Tommy Sands

October 18, 2026 · 24 min

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The folk legend from Co Down will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's RTÉ Radio1 Folk Awards . He chats about growing up in a very religiously and socially-divided northern Ireland, touring as The Sands Family, performing in the US, the tragic death of his brother Eugene and playing outside Stormont on the week of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998

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