A CRY FOR HELP
Pat Coldrick was a victim of our economic woes when his
bespoke furniture business went bust in 2008. ,” My business dried up and -- bang -- I was left
without a euro in my pocket," he says.
"One day, I went down on my own to Burrow Beach in Sutton and I
asked God for help.
"I said, 'please, please help me, please let me find
myself again'. I was 47 and I'd lost everything," he adds.
A month later
he found himself looking up an old friend whom he hadn’t met in years, on the
computer only to discover that she had died at the age of 43. Shocked by this
news he sat there stunned by the loss when he remembered his old guitar up in
the attic. Pat had abandoned the instrument 25 years earlier. He went up to the
attic, dusted down the guitar and composed a tune called ‘The Lament’ in honour
of his deceased friend.
Pat revived his love for playing and went out onto
Grafton street busking at 47 years of age! The response from passers by was
phenomenal and gradually his fortunes began to change. He has appeared on RTE,
played to packed theatres here and at a music festival in Florida and
released his own CD ‘Cayendo’
Pat sums
up his change in fortune since crying out to God for help, “
"I'm not making a fortune, but I'm getting by," he adds , "I have all my old friends back and, for the first time in
more than 25 years, I'm genuinely happy." ~GOSh.~
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