Irishman discovers he may be reason Foo Fighters exist after realising Dave Grohl is talking about him in interview

If you're a fan of the Foo Fighters, it seems like you owe this fella a pint - as it turns out he could be responsible for the formation of the iconic rock band, and without him, it might have never happened.

So if you see a bloke called Lorcan Dunne walking about on the streets of Ireland, make sure you give him a pat on the back for inadvertently sticking a rocket up Dave Grohl's backside when he needed it the most.

Music fans have been left stunned after a bloke took to Twitter, now known as X, to explain that his cousin had come to the realisation that he was 'kind of an important' cog in the wheel of the creation of the Foo Fighters in 1994.

Eoin Tighe explained that his relative Lorcan had stumbled across a video of Grohl discussing what prompted him to pick up his drum sticks again following the death of his bandmate Kurt Cobain and the subsequent dissolution of Nirvana.

Dave Grohl with Nirvana bandmates Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. (Kevin Mazur Archive/WireImage)

And when he was listening to the musician explain how a 'soul-searching' trip to The Ring of Kerry in Ireland prompted him to get back in the studio, the Irishman realised that he played a huge part in it.

In an interview, Grohl told how he decided to 'disappear' and go to the 'most remote place on Earth' as he battled with his grief following Cobain's passing in April 1994 at the age of 27.

The rocker said: "I've been before. It's so beautiful there. You really feel like your at the end of the Earth.

"I was driving around in my rental car on a country road and I saw this hitchhiker kid. And I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll pick him up'. And as I got closer to him, I saw that he had a Kurt Cobain t-shirt on.

"It was Kurt's face looking back at me... in the middle of nowhere!"

In a video shared by Eoin on social media, Lorcan then explained his version of events on that fateful night in the 90s.

Lorcan Dunne's choice of t-shirt may have led to the formation of the Foo Fighters. (X/@eointighe)

He recalled: "We were down on the Beara Peninsula on a holiday and we hitched up to this place to go swimming."

"I was running and I saw a car there, so I thought I'd run up and hitch," Lorcan said. "When I was hitching, I looked into who was sitting in the passenger seat - but it was David Grohl.

"I didn't recognise him firstly, but I saw this look of shock on the guy's face... and I had a Nirvana t-shirt on with Kurt Cobain on it.

"It was black tie dye, the one with Kurt where he has the mascara on his face.

"I saw the look of shock and the next thing, the car just tore off, away. And I turned round like, 'That was David Grohl lad!'

"Nobody believed me!"

Lorcan's pal pointed out that it was pretty wild to think that the Ohio-born star was mooching around 'in the middle of nowhere' and revealed that he had actually said at the time: "I hope he didn't see that t-shirt."

Grohl credits the encounter in Ireland with giving him the push to make music again. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Foo Fighters)

But apparently the bloke's fashion choice unwittingly triggered a chain of events which led to the conception of a legendary rock band, the Foo Fighters.

Lorcan went onto explain that he had spotted the video of Grohl's interview a couple of weeks ago when it clicked.

He added: "I was like, 'There you go, that was me'."

But how did this all lead to the formation of the Foo Fighters, I hear you cry?

Well, even though he left Lorcan and his pals in his dust and tore off into the night, Grohl seemingly took the encounter as a sign that his beloved bandmate would have wanted him to continue their shared passion.

Explaining the impact seeing Cobain's face on the t-shirt had on him, the musician continued: "I realised like, 'Oh. I can't outrun this'. So I need to go home and f**king get back to work. And so I did."

Class - and social media users seem to think so to.

One praised it as 'utterly brilliant', while another added: "It had to be Ireland, and nowhere else. Such an epic story."

A third wrote: "That is so cool that he ended up learning later about how much it affected him."

A fourth joked: "Sometimes heroes wear capes. And sometimes, a great rock T-shirt."

And a fifth chimed in: "What a great story! I love that you found out. One of the coolest bands ever, the Foo Fighters."

Nice one, Lorcan!

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