Brian McFadden’s new album The Irish Connection features a collection of songs that were originally written or recorded by some of Irelands most successful artists. It also includes duets with Sinead O’Connor, his good friend Ronan Keating and Christy Dignam.

Brian says of the album; “I have toyed with the idea of making album of my favourite Irish songs for a few years now but the timing was always wrong. I have been making an original album with my brother in arms Rob Conley for the last year and a half, but we decided to take time out of that to take on this challenge and a challenge it was. The idea of covering other artists songs in theory sounds easy but in reality it comes with the huge pressure of justifying the originals and the artists, all while trying to put my own feel on the songs, give them new life and somehow try and make them sound like they could possibly be my own”.