{"id":8305,"date":"2025-04-19T19:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8305"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:30:01","slug":"mere-mortals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8305","title":{"rendered":"Mere Mortals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mere Mortals; Portlaoise Active; 1989 &#8211; 1992<br>Style; <br>Vocals; Paul Marron<br>Vocals &amp; Guitar; Paul Brophy                             Guitar; Ollie Plunkette<br>Bass; Des Rigney <br>Drums; Dick Duff                                         Percussion &amp; Accordion; Pat Critchley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ghostown1976.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leinster-Express-1831-current-Saturday-August-18-1990-Page-32.png?fit=688%2C714&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ghostown1976.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leinster-Express-1831-current-Saturday-August-18-1990-Page-32.png?w=688&amp;ssl=1 688w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ghostown1976.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leinster-Express-1831-current-Saturday-August-18-1990-Page-32.png?resize=289%2C300&amp;ssl=1 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From the Leinester Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-132d02e23b904e2b901fda203fdd8940\">The Drowning Fish<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This band were formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8309&amp;preview_id=8309&amp;preview_nonce=f3fc75725c&amp;preview=true\">The Drowning Fish<\/a>, but changed their name to Mere Mortals with the rise of An Emotional Fish &amp; Little Fish too stop any confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drummer Dick Duff was formerly in another Portlaoise band <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8210&amp;preview_id=8210&amp;preview_nonce=a021af079d&amp;preview=true\">Lunatic Antics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-contact-form is-layout-flex wp-container-jetpack-contact-form-is-layout-7f6ac06e wp-block-jetpack-contact-form-is-layout-flex\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit a form.<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mere Mortals; Portlaoise Active; 1989 &#8211; 1992Style; Vocals; Paul MarronVocals &amp; Guitar; Paul Brophy Guitar; Ollie PlunketteBass; Des Rigney Drums; Dick Duff Percussion &amp; Accordion; Pat Critchley The Drowning Fish This band were formerly known as The Drowning Fish, but changed their name to Mere Mortals with the rise of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12523,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8305","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13680,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8305\/revisions\/13680"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}