ABBA stars recall boozy Ireland gig
Bjorn and Benny ABBA stars Benny and Bjorn have told how the only time they played in Ireland not all the crew were sober.
The Dancing Queen hitmakers performed at at Dublin’s RDS in November 1979 as their European tour came to an end.
Speaking to RTE, Benny Andersson, 71, said: “It felt good to be in Ireland and we opened the show with me playing a Swedish folk tune on my GX-1 Yamaha keyboard.
“I remember some of the people in the crew weren’t that sober that night.
“Someone came on playing the accordion in the middle of the song.”
The Swedish band have recorded two new songs for the upcoming 2019 Hologram tour. Gardai at scene of murder Jason and Dean Bradley Neil Reilly TWO brothers wept as they were jailed for life yesterday for the savage murder of a gunman who shot at their home.
Jason and Dean Bradley were last week found guilty of killing 36-year-old Neil Reilly at Esker Glebe in Lucan, South Dublin, in January last year.
During the trial it emerged Jason, 20, inflicted seven chop wounds with a sharp weapon on the drug dealer, before 24-year-old Dean drove over him.
Two witnesses saw him drive over the victim twice, while another said she saw the car go over him three times.
A third brother, Ryan, was acquitted of murder by the trial judge but will be sentenced at the end of his month after admitting impeding the investigation.
The boys’ father Paul Bradley was found not guilty of murder by the jury.
At the Central Criminal Court Justice Paul Coffey sentenced Jason and Dean, of Liscarne Gardens, South Dublin, to imprisonment for life.
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Defence barrister Michael Bowman said both wished to apologise for what happened and revealed their mother had penned a letter to the victim’s family, saying: “We are so full of remorse.”
The trial heard dad-of-two Reilly was owed €9,000 by Jason Bradley, a debt that would lead him to attack the Bradleys’ home on the night of January 18. Reilly drove off after the shooting and threw the gun over a garden wall but the Bradleys followed him, Dean in a BMW, with Ryan in the passenger seat and Jason with his father Paul in a SUV. At around 4am Reilly crashed his Mazda at Esker Glebe, the SUV then crashed into it.
Reilly’s accomplice got away but Jason Bradley tackled the drug dealer and despite suffering a deep cut to his hand, overpowered him and beat him with a sharp weapon. He sustained skull and brain injuries and seven chop wounds, all of which were potentially fatal.
As Reilly lay on the road, Dean Bradley’s BMW arrived and drove over him, causing injuries that alone could have killed him.
It was his son Dean Reilly who broke the news to his family.