A member of Louis Walsh’s new boyband Hometown has admitted his father is in prison for manslaughter.
Daryl Cronin, who joined the new band this year, has revealed his dad killed someone at a house party.
Father Leigh Crowe, 40, shot and killed 25-year-old Owen Cahill during a party back in 2006.
Leigh was convicted of the manslaughter of Owen and attempted murder of another man in 2006.
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Although Daryl has said he never knew his real father.
“Michael O’Connor has raised me and was always there for me and is my role model and real father.
“I don’t know that other man. I’ve never seen him and I wouldn’t know him if I passed him on the street,” he told the Irish Star.
“I know nothing about him and I wasn’t aware of him going to jail – I think I was making my confirmation at the time.
“I have no idea what he looks like. My mother broke up with him when I was about two months old so I’ve never known him.”
“It’s not the man who made me but the man who reared me who’s my father,” he explained.
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Daryl said he came forward with the revelation because he heard vicious people were trying to sell the story in the UK.
“I was told there was a letter and then I hear it was a phone call, but apparently someone said I had a terrible upbringing.
“That I was dragged through ditches growing up and I was visiting this man in prison – none of which is true.
“I had a feeling it might come out now that I’m in the band. I suppose there are some jealous people about that want their own fifteen minutes of fame,” he said.
