Moya Brennan, Máire Ní Bhraonáin, better known as Máire Brennan or … It was really lovely but we will certainly miss him.”“It was very difficult. I have other brothers and sisters too and we all have our own way of going on.”The new Irish language series, fronted by Eamonn Mallie, is set to feature a string of well-known Irish-speaking personalities who have made an impact culturally, politically, religiously or musically.In the series, Moya Brennan reveals how all of her siblings were around her father, Leo Brennan, last year in Donegal in the weeks before he passed away last June.“There were very few people especially at that time who didn’t have people take advantage of them.
"You think you can do something like that and just forget about it and wipe it out of your head – but you can't," she says. Clannad is composed of siblings Moya, Ciarán, and Pól Brennan, and twin uncles, Noel and Padraig Duggan.
"I had been praying for guidance – I certainly wasn't praying for a husband – but, you know, I really believe that God put Tim in my path. Clannad's Moya Brennan talks about music, painting and the beauty of Donegal As singer and songwriter Moya Brennan launches new album Timeless … "You know, when I was on the other side of the world, travelling with Clannad, I missed so many school events, dental appointments and even some birthdays," admits the singer. Moya Brennan, Máire Ní Bhraonáin, better known as Máire Brennan or phonetically as Moya Brennan (born 4 August 1952, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland), is a Grammy Award-nominated Celtic folk singer. And just because I was in a folk band, it wasn't any different.She candidly documents those times – as well as the time she travelled to London for an abortion at 18 – in her memoir The Other Side of The Rainbow (published in 2000), giving husband Tim Jarvis, former photographer and now her manager, all the credit for "grounding" her and redirecting her towards her faith. ""I have stopped the Pond's cold cream these days," Brennan says, laughing down the line. Like most of her siblings, Moya’s childhood also involved singing on stage at Leos Tavern backed by her father Leo. Beginning with 2003's Two Horizons LP, she began using the name Moya Brennan, a simpler phonetic variation on her Irish given name. It happens, but as long as we have our music that is the important thing.”She also opened up about her well-documented battle with drink and drugs when she first shot to fame in Clannad.Stephen Maguire is the co-founder of Donegal Daily. We are always praying but we don’t actually talk to Him. He has worked as a reporter for almost 30 years starting locally with the Donegal Peoples Press before moving to the Mirror Group. "Putting on the make-up, tuning the harp, having quick showers in different hotel rooms... it's all worth it just for those two hours with the audience when everything else fades away. I thought I could do it and forget about it. She began her singing career when her family formed the band Clannad in 1970. "It does affect you and it did me for many years. He was a Christian and the two of us found a kind of common ground in the middle, even though he was from Cambridge and a Protestant and I'm from Donegal and a Catholic. In the series, Moya Brennan reveals how all of her siblings were around her father, Leo Brennan, last year in Donegal in the weeks before he passed away last June. We fell in love the first time we met. I had an experience where I knew He forgave me.”She said: “He is an amazing man. There were always people approaching you and asking you what you wanted.