THE UNEXPECTED STAR of this year’s Fleadh Cheoil, six-year-old Séamie Séan Ó Braonáin, has bought his suit after raising the funds busking. 

Séamie Séan came to the public’s attention after a live interview he did with TG4′s Aoife Ní Thuairisg.

Asked why he was at the Fleadh, he replied, “Because my mammy just said I could busk.”

In the interview, he told Ní Thuairisg that he was planning to save up his money earned while busking at the Fleadh for a new suit.

He sang a rendition of The Dubliners’ and Luke Kelly’s The Nightingale on the programme.

Séamie Séan, a student at Creevy National School in Rossnowlagh in Co Donegal, then took to the Wexford streets to raise the money. He played the fiddle, sang, and performed the Brush Dance. 

Over the following week, Séamie Séan’s star has grown. On Saturday, the budding musician bought his coveted suit from Gerard Anthony Menswear in Carrick-on-Shannon using his earnings from busking.

Séamie Seán busking at the Fleadh, and pictured with his mother Fiona Maria Fitzpatrick. TG4 TG4

Rocking up to the shop in a stretch limousine, with his cousins acting the role of his bodyguards, dancers and musicians from Áirc Damhsa performed. 

Séamie Séan has been singing since the age of two, and has recently begun learning the fiddle.

Both his parents are musicians: his father, musician Seanan Brennan, is a member of Kíla, a renowned Irish folk music group originally formed in 1987, while his mother is musician and actress Fiona Maria Fitzpatrick, originally from Co Cavan.

He hopes to become an actor one day, following in his mother’s footsteps.