The Script's Danny O'Donoghue has said that he had a very tough year following the passing of Mark Sheehan.
"Last year was the hardest year of my life and music was the one thing that saved me. It pulled me out of a dark place and it is partly the reason why I feel there is a brand new energy leading through now. "What I wanted to try to do was leave The Script as it was ,,,,I did not want to fill those shoes as they will never be filled. We retired the three piece and have gone to a four piece."
He was always one to set the standard for our writing. I hope I am doing his memory and honour by continuing on what we started. It has been a tough year." I was trying to contemplate on the lyrics and the only thing I could write about Mark was 'like a shooting star across the sky, in a second you were gone, but why do stars that light up twice as bright, only burn for half as long.' It was the first time I got that thorn out of my side, what I wanted to articulate about the guy. Its always the great ones that go too soon - partly explains why I am still here," he joked.