Eamon Carr: ‘Sinéad O’Connor took a handful of crisps and crunched them very loudly into the mic’

Eamon Carr: ‘Sinéad O’Connor took a handful of crisps and crunched them very loudly into the mic’

Eamon Carr has lived the equivalent of 10 lifetimes, and he’s got a multitude of stories for every one of them. That means that there’s no such thing as a ‘brief’ catch-up with the Kells native, who is perhaps best-known as the founding member and drummer of Celtic rock icons Horslips. However, he is also known as a poet, having founded experimental spoken word beat group Tara Telephone in the 1960s; a playwright; an art historian; a sportswrite…