When Bantry musician John Minehane bought his first saxophone from Duffy’s Circus for £25 in 1950, the story of the Regal Showband began. Together with the O’Sullivan brothers, Paddy who played button and piano accordion and Murt who played chromatic accordion, pianist Donal O’Donovan, trumpeter Seán O’Leary and drummer Seán Clifford, the lads began playing for dancers in and around their County Cork hometown and soon made a name for themselves on the dancing circuit.......