Galway Bay FM News Archives
YouTube turns Athenry vet and pals into ageing rockers!
Date Published: 13-Apr-2011
They may be of the same vintage as the Rolling Stones but that was the closest connection a well-known veterinary surgeon from Athenry and his three friends had to rock ‘n’ roll – until they started creating quite a stir on YouTube with their debut video!
When Giles Brody, son of local vet Frank Brody, decided to make an unofficial promo video for one of his favourite songs, ‘Let’s Go To The Beach’ by Canadian garage rock band The White Wires, who better to star in the video than his dad and his three musical buddies, Mattie Feeney (drums), Brendan Flanagan (button accordion) and Paschal O’Dowd (banjo), a group that meets regularly in a local hotel, Hanberry’s, to play music of the more traditional variety?
The White Wires – Ian Manhire on vocals and guitar, Luke Martin on bass guitar and backing vocals and Allie Hanlon on drums – were naturally blissfully unaware of all this, but the viral video hit is helping to attract a whole new fan base for the band who have been playing for four years and are now releasing their third album.
The fact that their song doesn’t sound remotely like the usual folk-ballads that the Athenry lads normally play didn’t seem to bother the director one little bit.
Because through the wonders of modern technology, Paschal’s banjo took on the guise of an overdriven electric guitar, Mattie’s snare drum became a 20-piece drum kit, Brendan’s accordion suddenly started producing sounds that Paolo Soprani would never have envisaged for the instrument and Frank morphed into Ian Manhire.
The video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebs5kSWxeck or by going to YouTube.com and typing in SPIREGALWAY.
See this week’s Connacht Tribune for more.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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