RTE Guide (2005)

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Finbar Wright (Tenor) 

New Year Resolutions 



At the beginning of 2003 my resolution was to lose three stone in weight, which I did. 
Then at the beginning of 2004 I made a very philosophical resolution, and that was to be 
happy. That sounds simple and trite but I think that a lot of people's problems can be 
that they allow things to get on top of them. 



For 2005 there are a couple of plans. As a family we love hill-walking (Angela and Finbar 
have two children 12-year-old Fergus and Ileana who is 10). So this year we are going to 
climb Carrauntuohill, the highest mountain in Ireland. I have never done it before. 



Also I have been writing poetry for a number of years. People always apologise for writing 
poetry but when you consider it, I'm singing poetry all the time. Poetry is very important 
to me and I have written a lot over the past five to six years in particular. So I would 
like to collate them and get them published. 



I think poetry is very important and is underestimated in people's lives; from Ovid and 
Virgil onwards it has been very important in those societies. The spiritual, the philosophical 
and mystical sides of our personalities sometimes tends to be neglected. I find writing poetry 
to be very entertaining: it is also very spiritual and philosophical to be able to express 
something in succint terms.