The Script's Danny O'Donoghue and Glen Power used their time on Friday's Late Late Show to pay tribute to their late friend and bandmate Mark Sheehan, describing him as "the bridge that brought us all together".
Mark Sheehan died in April 2023 after a brief illness. He was 46.
Drummer Power admitted that it had been "really tough" to continue the band after the death of the guitarist.
"We had many discussions about it, and I think in the spirit of what Mark was about and what he wanted us to do in the beginning, we knew it was the right thing to do to get back out there and give it our all," he continued.
"If me and Dan hadn't met Mark, we'd still be in our bedrooms playing music, thinking, 'It's going to happen someday...' We're like a transformer, we're all parts of the whole and he put us together and then you realised what this could be."
Power told host Kielty that the last time they were on the Late Late, Mark Sheehan was with them.
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"We were together. Even tonight as I was driving down here, I was thinking about that. There's not a day goes by that we don't think about the guy because every single thing we do reminds us of him being with us doing it."
Singer O'Donoghue shared that Mark Sheehan "took me under his wing and really gave me a lot of confidence" when they first met and that they became "the best of mates".
"To have it (The Script) go from rags to riches in the way that it's gone was an absolute dream and then, with Mark's passing... last year turned into the worst nightmare of our lives," he continued.
O'Donoghue said that everybody involved with the band was "really lost" after Mark Sheehan's death, but they resolved to continue as The Script and making their new album Satellites "focused everybody and it gave us all a goal and something to bring us all together".
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The frontman then spoke of Christmas 2023 being an epiphany for him, and how his intentions of being sober for Christmas did not go to plan.
"Christmas time leads back into the grief thing. I was getting on the plane and I knew that Dublin was going to be triggering for me and I said, 'I'm going to come back for Christmas and just be sober for the whole Christmas'... I pretty much spent the rest of the Christmas drunk," O'Donoghue recounted.
"It was really difficult for me to deal with being back in Dublin and seeing everybody for the first time since Mark passed away... On the 27th December, I decided enough was enough. I've been off the drink now 10 months," he said - following in the footsteps of Power, who has been sober for 13 years.
"If you're drinking on grief, you're not getting over the grief, you're just kicking it down the road," O'Donoghue added.
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