Finbar Furey is an Irish music legend, both as a member of the incomparable Fureys & Davey Arthur and in more recent years as a solo artist of note.
His performances on RTÉ usually result in a musical moment to remember, and he's somewhat of an internet sensation, to boot - online, his RTÉ appearances have received over 20M views to date.
So what's his secret? It's all about the singer, and the song - but mostly the singer. Simply put, there's only one Finbar Furey, and more than a half-century into an extraordinary career, he sounds better than ever.
Watch five of his finest RTÉ moments below...
It's Finbar, with strings, performing The Last Great Love Song with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in 2013:
Finbar Furey & Sharon Shannon perform He'll Have To Go on the Late Late Show in 2017...
And there's more: Finbar & Sharon tackle The Galway Shawl...
Here he is performing When You Were Sweet Sixteen with Liberties belle Imelda May on the special edition of The Late Late Show recorded in London in 2018:
Talk about a show-stopper his duet with Aslan's Christy Dignam has been watched a whopping 11 million times.
And there's more - Finbar brings us on a musical journey throughout his long and illustrious career, in For One Night with Gay Byrne, recorded in 2012 - watch it on RTÉ Player here.
