Now one of Ireland’s foremost singer songwriters with a string of successful and well loved songs to his name Mick Hanly joined Christy Moore and others in Moving Hearts in 1981, where he began to perform his own material - “All I Remember” and “Open Those Gates” being two of the best known and best loved. 1989 saw the release by Mary Black of her album No Frontiers with Hanly’s “Past the Point of Rescue.” Hal Ketchum then recorded it as the title track of his 1991 album and a single.

It became one of the most played and the most-requested songs on the 2,500 country stations across the U.S., and topped the charts there. Mick continues to write and record and is now recognized both at home and abroad as one of the truly great Irish songwriters of recent years. (Irish Connections Magazine)