Kingfishr

Eddie Keogh, Eoghan McGrath and Eoin Fitzgibbon - that's right, they’re Irish - got to know one another while studying engineering at the University of Limerick. Their first single ‘flowers-fire’ (2022) was released the week before their final exams and became the hoped-for ticket to a world tour. The group's name is telling in that respect. The kingfisher is a bird found along most Irish watercourses. It is sedentary unless food is in short supply. Then it flies out. The eponymous group went international in 2024 with ‘Killeagh’, an anthem about the pub team from the village where Fitzgibbon grew up. The song spent 18 weeks in the Irish Top 10 and went viral via TikTok. It made Irish folk music hip again. Or 'craic' as they put it themselves. Which translates as 'entertainment for all'.