D:Ream’s Peter Cunnah: How I tracked down my birth father after 50 years

But it would take Cunnah another 34 years to put the final piece of the jigsaw together and trace his biological father.

Ann told him his name was Patrick Dusky and that Cunnah was “his spit” .

But, it turned out, Dusky was a stage name.

“When you tried to find him, he was like a ghost,” Cunnah added.

However, detective work by his sister-in-law tracked down a social media profile for Patrick Hanna.

It still wasn’t straightforward.

“It’s a big thing to go: ‘Hello, I think you might be my dad.’ How do you phrase that initial contact,” Cunnah said.

“I emailed him and got crickets.”