Boyband Zoo

Boyband Zoo were an Irish pop boy band. The group comprised Mike Sammon, David Kaneswaran, Eric McCarthy, Greg Ryan, and Barry Cosgrave. The band's debut single "Poison" reached number one on the Official Irish charts in February 2005. The single went straight to number one beating the likes of Eminem, U2 and Green day. The song went on to be the biggest selling single in 2005 in Ireland. Their debut studio album Wanted was scheduled for release in January 2006.

Louis Walsh confirmed his rating of the five-piece act by quickly confirming their debut performance as support act for Westlife on the Irish leg of their Turnaround Tour. "These are the only Boyband from Ireland with a chance".^{[citation needed]}

The band went on to release a further two singles "I wanna be your lover" again reaching number 1 in the charts but quickly slipping out of the top 5 a week later and with the help of Def Leppard front man Joe Elliot covered Pour Some sugar on me for which the received rave reviews from musical insiders. The band continued to work with hit songwriter Wayne Hector and Max Martin before vanishing from the music scene without reason.

David and Eric are the only members to continue to work in the music industry. They are both credible musicians, songwriters and record producers running a production company called End Music. David's brother Siva is a member of UK pop band The Wanted.

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In 2006 ZOO were nominated for an Meteor Irish Music Award for the Best Pop act losing out to global boy band phenomenon Westlife. The bands however remained close friends with ZOO opening for Westlife on two world tours.