Mick inherited a love of Irish music from his parents who came from County Kerry & Roscommon in Ireland.

  "The Dubliners" banjo player, Barry McKenna, inspired Mick to learn the Banjo in 1967. He learned tunes from the great London Irish musicians, including John Bowe, Bobby Casey, Tommy McCarthy, and Roger Sherlock, and is particularly influenced by Clare, Galway and Kerry styles of playing.
   Mick won the all-Ireland tenor banjo championship in 1971 and two all-Ireland ceili band medals in 1986 and 1987 as a member of "Thatch Ceili Band". He toured the USA & Ireland in 1975 and the UK in 1976 with Jo Burke, Paddy Glakin on a tour organised by "Comhaltas Ceoltori Eirean" the Irish Traditional Music Association. Photo click here.

  Mick has played in countless concerts and ceili's over the years, and toured in the U.S.A, Canada, South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Ireland and elsewhere. He has recorded with some of the greats of Irish