Kevin Rowland

Róisín Meets...

Kevin Rowland tells Róisín Ingle why he's grateful for Dexy's Midnight Runners' biggest hit, Come On Eileen, but you shouldn’t expect to hear him play it any time soon. Nearly thirty-five years on, Come On Eileen still gets played on the radio, but Rowland said he rarely hears it unless somebody is trying to provoke him. In a wide-ranging discussion he speaks about his former career as a hairdresser, his parents who came from county Mayo and the time he spent there as a child, why he is not bothered that he is not rich, and said he feels, “more at peace these days than I ever have.”