Christy Dignam

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Christy Dignam: A life in pictures

Christy Dignam, the Irish musician best known as the frontman of Aslan, has died at the age of 63, following a long illness. We take a look back at his life and career in pictures.

Christy Dignam: One of Ireland’s most recognisable performers and writer of pop/rock classics

Crazy World singer’s almost 45-year career was characterised by an easy-going charm and disarming honesty

Christy Dignam, despite everything, never stopped singing and never lost his connection to his audience

Patrick Freyne: The Aslan frontman had remained a stalwart of Ireland’s music scene despite his extensive medical treatment

Christy Dignam speaks with raw but droll honesty – even when Ryan Tubridy drops a clanger

Despite some missteps by the RTÉ Radio 1 host, the Aslan singer gives a compellingly frank interview about the prospect of death

Christy Dignam says he is on a ‘conveyor belt up to heaven’ since entering palliative care

Aslan singer was diagnosed with amyloidosis, a rare blood disorder associated with certain cancers in 2013

Blood cancer patients to benefit from first use of ‘living drug’ to treat multiple myeloma

First Irish trial to treat patients with Car-T immunotherapy opens at St James’s Hospital in Dublin

Christy Dignam has served Ireland in several important ways

Emer McLysaght: Seeing Christy Dignam on stage, I couldn’t fathom, in my ignorance, how someone could be an addict yet do what he was doing

Christy Dignam receiving palliative care at his Dublin home

Family issues health update and thanks public ‘for keeping Christy in their thoughts and prayers’

Christy Dignam: The Man Who Stayed Alive – A life-affirming triumph

Aslan singer releases an uplifting solo debut

Mary Coughlan revisits her past: ‘It was everywhere. Bags of cocaine, champagne and tequila’

TV review: In ‘Keys To My Life’, well known people travel to the places they have lived

Christy Dignam resumes chemotherapy as cancer ‘creeps up again’

Aslan frontman was not attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic

‘I’ll never forget the pain,’ says Christy Dignam of father’s Covid-19 death

Aslan singer feels lack of closure over death as family were unable to have wake

Sean O’Rourke’s final show reminds listeners why he’ll be missed

He interviews both ministers and hairdressers with professionalism and passion

Christy Dignam: ‘Nearly all the people I started with are dead’

Interview: The Aslan singer pulls no punches about drug addiction, sex abuse and cancer

Monty Python to missing ship: Michael Palin to feature at Dublin Festival of History

Broadcaster will discuss disappearance of HMS Erebus during an expedition to find Northwest Passage

Lauren Murphy on the acts to see – and why – at the Iveagh Gardens

Alanis Morissette, The The, Aslan and Damien Dempsey some of the must sees

Talent from across the decades

Gig of the week – A Night for Aware, Friday April 6, Olympia theatre, Dublin, 8pm, €25 ticketmaster.ie

Miriam Lord: Fine Gael’s big announcement fails to go to plan

National Development Plan’s launch was a matter of record in several respects

A year after Apollo House has anything really changed?

Apollo House provided safety, warmth but it failed to inspire homelessness solution

Charity homelessness single reminds us ‘we all fall down’

Christy Dignam and Shay Healy among those contributing to Christmas fundraiser

'We’d snorted our way across America, it was ironic I was sacked over drugs'

Aslan singer Christy Dignam on rehearsing in a pigsty, writing ‘This Is’, drug problems, collaborating with Finbar Furey, and staying positive through gruelling bouts of chemotherapy

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