COBH showband star and composer Jack Brierley has been honoured with a ceremony to award his contribution to Ireland’s music scene.
Jack, who penned Ireland’s 1973 entry for the Eurovision Song Contest with George F Crosbie, received the Music Industry Companion Award from Stephen Travers of the Miami Showband in the Clayton Hotel, Silversprings.
He was well known on the showband circuit, and performed across the country.
He and Mr Crosbie combined for two other entries in the National Song Contest in previous years, with Mending My Nets in Kinsale being beaten by just one point.
Their song Do I Dream was performed by Maxi in Luxembourg in 1973 and finished 10th.
Musician and composer Jack Brierley, second right, is presented with the Music Industry Companion Award by Stephen Travers of the Miami Showband and his wife Frances receives a bouquet of flowers from Tuxedo Junction band member Kirsty Tobin, at a special function in the Clayton Hotel, Silver Springs.
Picture: David Keane.