Brendan had a gift and a passion. He had been gifted with a remarkable singing voice which put him front and centre at pub nights and social gatherings. Then he was invited by the Armagh City Choir to a rehearsal in the Cathedral, where he found a community of likeminded souls and voices who met simply to make divine music together.
His passion from childhood was to play the kettledrum in the great processions which celebrated the historic battles between Catholic and Protestant communities. Politics had
resorted thirty years ago to the bullet and the gun and less publicly he had become an active member of the paramilitary wing of the Ulster Defence Regiment...