Miah's strong TV debut

Miah Phelan-Sweeney's performance this afternoon on 'The Den' Star Search item received the height of praise from the guest judges, Emma O'Driscoll and Mickey Harte.



Emma, formerly a pop singer herself, noted that in performing her own composition, 'Ain't no Way', as well as singing and playing the piano, Miah had given herself a 'huge' amount of work to cope with, but she had done 'an amazing job'.

You're a Star winner singer/song writer Mickey Harte was equally fulsome in his praise, saying that Miah being a singer-songwriter herself 'was right up my street'.

"Your song was a lot like Kate Nash's stuff, and that's good," he said. "With a bit of work and some production it could easily get into the charts."

Emma added that both the song and its performance were 'very believable', and very much telling a story. Mickey said 'keep writing'.

Moving to the next level depends on text voting, which concludes on Friday at 4.40pm. To vote for Miah, text ACT C to 51101.



Brian Byrne.