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The snow was as high as the fences that year and people did not know whether they were walking on the road or on the walls or in the fields as they made their way to the nearby village. The harsh [...]

They were Mayo’s and the West’s most famous show band and the first band west of the Shannon to reach number one in the Irish charts in 1966. They were formed in Claremorris in April 1963 and one [...]

[wp_ad_camp_1] My mother remembers well the early 1960’s c. 1961 before she left for England in 1963 when in their youth and prime as the song goes they would light a fire for the 24 June on [...]