Rory Gallagher is the man who, without question, spearheaded and influenced the entire Irish rock movement. Remarkably, many years after his untimely passing in June 1995, Rory's music is as popular ...

Marcus Connaughton is is a former broadcaster and radio producer, and the author of the best selling biography Rory Gallagher – His Life and Times" – first published by The Collins Press in 2012.

Barry McGivern, of the Rory Gallagher Statue Project Trust, said it was a "fitting tribute". "Rory came up to Belfast in 1967 and it was a vibrant music scene," McGivern told BBC News NI.

Rory Gallagher played guitar as if he were walking along the edge of a volcano. But offstage, this molten musician was shy and not at all cut out for the glad-handling part of the rock star business.