Dubliner Dempsey is the latest troubadour to top the Irish charts since David Gray began a trend which also swept David Kitt and Damien Rice to prominence. Dempsey is the most Irish-sounding of them all, owing more to Christy Moore than Nick Drake. Yet tracks such as “Ghosts Of Overdoses”and “Jar Song”are unromantic, streetwise observations on the Irish condition. Sin
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