Sinéad Ryan: In the dark depths of the 80s, Lord Henry Mount Charles put on the greatest gig I’ve ever seen

Henry set about doing something nobody said would work: bringing rock stars to the Royal County

Lord Henry Mount Charles

Sinéad Ryan

But for a brave – some might add coerced and stubborn – Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Slane’s only claim to fame would be a tidy Meath village with a troublesome bridge.

When the Earl of Mount Charles, Henry Vivien Pierpont Conyngham, took over the family’s Irish seat – on instruction from his father – he didn’t have a clue what to do with it.