This appeared in Issue 14 of Ireland's Personalities Entertainment Magazine (1997)

Joe Dolan Factfile

Birthplace: Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
Birthday: 16th October
Height: 5'9"
Colour of hair: Grey
Colour of eyes: Grey/Green
Early Ambition: Not to have to work for a living
First job: Apprentice printer
Earliest recording: The Answer to Everything 1964
Earliest Musical Influences: Mother playing the fiddle.
Hightpoint in Life to date: The sell-out tour of the USSR in 1981
Unfulfilled ambition: Tio sing a duet with Whitney Houston and then take her to dinner.
Favourite Irish artists: The Fureys, Nita Norry
Favourite International Celebrities: Demmos Taylor, Christy O'Connor Jr.

Favourite Sport: Golf
Favourite films: All horror films and "Shane"
Favourite Song or Musical: Nessun Dorma, The Legend of the Glass Mountain
Favourite Non-showbusiness Pastime: Playing Golf
Who would you most like to meet: President Clinton
The quality you most admire in others: Honesty
Number of Albums to date: 20
Latest Album: Endless Magic which has 15 tracks in total of which 7 are original, 4 cover versions and 4 previously deleted tracks. Record label: Gable Records.
Recorded: Joe's own studio "Bandroom Studios", Mullingar, and was produced and arranged by Adrian Dolan and Ollie Hennessy
Star comment: I can't think of any other job that would give me the satisfaction of showbusiness, when I'm on stage I want to reach out to everybody and together with my audience we have a great time!