Daniel Cronin In Conversation With....

A special one for me this week, I got the honour of interviewing my Dad, John. Dad grew up in a Bar and Grocery on the Main St., played in Barrach street, the Temp Hall, schooled in the Boys school on Piggot street before going to the De La Salle's where the County Council has its offices now. He moved to board in Garbally in 3rd year and spent 3 years there before returning to Lou

This week I had Mougie Maher in the studio, Shane Curley couldn't make it, both are Sleeping Out For Simon next Friday. I was at LARC's Culture Night on Friday and took some recordings, it was a brilliant night. Entertaining us that night was Padraig Connaughton and Tom Murphy with the Grey Lake Quartet. 

The Seven Springs Daycentre has been closed since March of 2020 with the onslaught of Covid. The Daycentre was a place where people from the surrounding areas could come together chat, listen to music, get their hair done, get checked medically, see a chiropodist etc. But in talking with users, the abiding positive of the Daycentre was getting out from home and getting to socialize

This week I go out to Loughrea Skateboarding Park and chat with Jake McNally and Jordan Muldoon on the reopening of the park after two years. Also I have Paddy Sweeney and Geraldine McNally from the Rugby Club, they’re installing lights and hope to be ready in a month or two, they got some funding but to get over the line they are giving people the opportunity to get their ‘Nam

This week I had Alan Cusack in the studio, all the way back from Australia. Alan grew up on the Athenry Road before heading to Manchester for Uni and then about the world for his career.

Thelma Sweeney dropped into the studio this week. Thelma grew up on Westbridge, her father was Dermot Sweeney, travel agent and her mother 'Sis' was the local midwife who assisted over 3000 local home births. Growing up in a Travel Agency it was no surprise that Thelma decided to travel, at first to England, then Europe before finally Australia where she met and married Chris. 

With a heavy heart we have an update on the Daycentre, this was to be opened, at long last, but just recently, Cllr Geraldine Donoghue has had some correspondence stating that it will not be opening anytime soon and for just 1 day a week! This is terrible news for all the service users and carers in the community, Cllr Donoghue and users are now planning direct action in the hope o

In the studio this week was Steve Dolan, head of GRD, telling us of the fight to better utilize the RSS and Tus projects. Because of the existing narrow parameters of both schemes, rural communities are being disadvantaged hugely, Steve and his cohorts have instigated a campaign to highlight these. These schemes are both beneficial to the communities and participants, a win-win sit

In the studio this Sunday was Ian Marmion, Ian, well-known son of Peggy and Lexi, will tell us of his career, taking him all over the world. His passion for horse racing, his wonderful success at Cheltenham. We’d been trying to make this happen for a long time so it was great that Ian could make it.

Great to meet up with my cuz Cora Ryan this morning. Cora just arrived back from Australia with her new baby, Laoise. Little Laoise had her very first birthday this week.  Cora recalls growing up on Main Street, all the families about the place, Fahy's, Magee's, Wade's, Dervan's. Rollerskating on the Main St! Drifting off to sleep with the music from Keary's and all the other