Editing Planxty (section)

==="The Third Coming" (2003–2005)===

On Tuesday, 7 October 2003, O'Toole received a postcard from Moore reading: "There might be something of interest happening on Saturday. I'll be in touch".<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|316}} It turned out that Paddy Doherty, owner of the Royal Spa Hotel in [[Lisdoonvarna]] (and co-founder of the [[Lisdoonvarna Music Festival]]), had arranged for the band's use of the hotel's old dining room for rehearsals, which led to a one-off concert there in front of 200 people on 11 October 2003.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|316}} Moore, on stage, credited the ''No Disco'' documentary with inspiring the reunion.<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|316}}

Pleased with the results and the experience of playing together again, the original Planxty quartet agreed to the longed-for reunion (dubbed "The Third Coming"<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|xii}}) and performed together again, on and off, for a period of just over a year.

First, they played a series of concerts at the [[Glór Theatre]] in [[Ennis]], [[County Clare]] (on 23 & 24 January 2004) and at [[Vicar Street]] in Dublin (on 30 & 31 January and on 4 & 5, 11 & 12 February 2004),<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|317}} which were recorded and from which selected material was released on the CD ''[[Live 2004 (Planxty album)|Live 2004]]'' and its associated DVD.

In late 2004 and early 2005,<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|322–326}} another round of concerts took place at the following venues:
  
* Radisson SAS Hotel in [[Galway]] (6, 7 and 8 October 2004); 
* [[Point Theatre]] in [[Dublin]] (28, 29 and 30 December 2004, plus extra dates on 3, 4 and 5 January 2005);
* [[Waterfront Hall]] in [[Belfast]] (19, 20 and 21 January 2005);  
* [[Barbican Centre]] in [[London]] (29, 30 and 31 January 2005).<ref name="O'Toole"/>{{rp|322–326}}

Planxty remained a four-piece throughout this period, with Moore occasionally playing keyboards. Since then there has been no further activity; Moore has said he would not participate in another reunion but gave his blessing to the others for the future use of the Planxty name.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}