'That Christy spoke about his abuse with such forthright dignity made him into a sort of mirror, an individual through which a nation processed a collective grief over the atrocious mistreatment faced by so many down through the decades.'
A survivor of sexual abuse as a child and as a teenager, a recovering addict, who spent six months in homelessness as an adult, who wrote some of the best-known and best-loved Irish songs of the past 30 years.
In a statement on Facebook she wrote: “It is with a broken heart that we convey the news of my father’s passing, Christy Dignam. Following a performance of Crazy World, host Ryan Tubridy said: “The lads were meant to be here to celebrate an amazing 40 years in the business and heading out on a big tour” at which point Dignam cut him off from the bandstand, and said: “Don’t even talk, it doesn’t matter about all that. That’s bullshit, compared to what’s going on.”
The immense hardships endured by the Finglas man – who was sexually abused over the course of years at a young age by a neighbour, and sexually abused once again by a man in whom he confided the original abuse – are tragedies that resonate in far too many households across Ireland.
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