This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Irish singer Tommy Fleming. Tommy rose to fame in the early 1990s after he was asked to tour the US with Phil Coulter. He soon established himself as a solo artist and found his greatest success singing traditional Irish music, both old and contemporary. Fleming has toured extensively throughout Ireland, UK, United States and Australia just to name a few. Tommy Fleming is currently living in Mayo with his wife, Tina. He met her at a funeral two days after a tour in the late 1990s. Tommy was involved in where he crashed his car and broke his neck. We will be talking about the Irish country music industry, growing up around music, his family, the car crash that he was involved in and much more.