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When the original Dubliners finished half a century of touring in 2012 following the sudden death of Barney McKenna and John Sheahan's retirement, they left a huge void in the world of Irish music.
That hole has been filled by this new group and between them the four members, Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell, Gerry O’Connor Paul Watchorn have more than six decades' combined experience of playing with the original Dubliners. This is no tribute band, more the Dubliners reborn.
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