After years of hard work in the music industry, Tony Allen of Foster and Allen built his dream home in his native Westmeath - but he lost the keys amid a financial disaster
Country music star Tony Allen has candidly opened up about losing everything when he went bankrupt in 2011.
Read more: Country music's Paddy O'Brien recalls meeting beloved wife Ann during a gig in Waterford “I’m afraid they took the keys off me a long time ago,” he told Brendan Courtney on Keys to my Life. “Well it panned out that we had no choice but to go bankrupt. They took everything, including my car. My BMW went as well.
“In our business there are ups and downs all the time. still working, 48 years after we started, so it could be worse.” The country singing sensation went on to find love again with second wife Trionagh and they live together in a beautiful home in Armagh.
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