Snow Patrol star opens up on having same tattoo as Ed Sheeran on The Late Late Show
Snow Patrol star Johnny McDaid has opened up on designing a special tattoo for musician Ed Sheeran.
The tree design includes the line "Nuair is gá dom filleadh abhaile, is tú mo réalt eolais ", the lyrics of a Foy Vance song which was written especially for Johnny McDaid's father who died in 2011.
Johnny revealed how he, Foy Vance and members of his family also have similar tattoos to the one that he designed for Ed Sheeran.
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"I drew the tree. Ed wanted a tattoo and he said can you draw a tree so I drew it on some kitchen paper and he had on it tattooed on his arm," Johnny said.
"The words are a Foy Vance song that he wrote and dedicated to my late father and it is a song called Guiding Light.
"The words are in Irish and in my mum's handwriting."
Patrick Kielty introduced the band to some members of the audience who had got Snow Patrol tattoos including Julie Carney from Northern Ireland who had the lyrics of This Isn't Everything You Are tattooed on her side when she was going through a different period of her life.
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