 He is a founding member (with older brother Seamus, Jackie Daly and Garry O'Briain) of "Buttons and Bows", "Moving Cloud" (with Paul Brock, Maeve Donnelly, Kevin Crawford and Carl Hession), and "The Brock McGuire Band" (with Paul Brock, Enda Scahill and Denis Carey; Fergal Scahill and Dennis Morrison have also played with the band).Both brothers were medical doctors; Seamus lives in Donegal.Now Manus performs mainly as a solo artist, and with Canadian singer/songwriter Emily Flack.