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28 May 2021
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Mollie in the Morning this week we are giving you the chance to win a two night family staycation in your choice of any of the six Só Hotel destinations with full Irish Breakfast each morning and an evening dinner in their hotel restaurant. With six locations in Cork, Galway, Laois, Limerick and Westmeath there’s a perfect location to explore our beautiful country. Oh yes! who would love to win this? Tune in from 6:30 each day – it could be you!
Só Hotels, (Só meaning ‘Luxury’ in Irish) is a group of contemporary, four-star Irish hotels which includes Castle Oaks Hotel and Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick, Athlone Springs Hotel, Charleville Park Hotel county Cork, Lough Rea Hotel & Spa, county Galway or the Killeshin Hotel, Portlaoise.
The Shandrum Ceili Band, led by the gifted Buttevant traditional musician Alan Finn, will be among the 300 artists participating in this year s virtual St. Patrick s Day Fest on a dedicated television channel on their website SPF TV from March 12-17.
The theme of the festival is Dúisigh Éire (Awaken Ireland) in which they invite people to throw off the dark days we have endured through the pandemic, and rise to embrace the brighter days ahead.
The Shandrum band s performance, which was commissioned by the St. Patrick s Fest, was filmed by Kanturk s Cal Callaghan of On Track Film Company, at Doneraile Park. The house and estate are the former home of the St. Leger family and now one of the most popular parkland amenities in the country that is visited by thousands of people each year.
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2017
Finbar Furey marks his 70th birthday with his new album, Paddy Dear, consisting of a brace of new songs from the legendary balladeer, along with covers of
The Galway Shawl and
He’ll Have to Go.
We Built a Home opens with a sparky run of banjo picking resting on co-producer Peter Eades effective keyboard. The veteran balladeer is passionately committed to his own Famine-era lyric, denouncing unequivocally “cold, cold genocide” a term which one of those revisionist people might baulk at. Yet Finbar tells it straight.
He is on very familiar ground on the second track,
The Galway Shawl, popular 40 years ago in every formica-trimmed lounge bar from Clonakility to Cardonagh to Kilburn. The song was revived ten years ago in a version by Patrick Street on their 2007 album,