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JUNE 2014
NEWS
Clifden CCE: results in full
Nada Ni Chuirinn and Orla Leavy – U15 Duet Champions
U12 button accordionists James Ruddy and Maedhbh O'Neill with teacher Marie Walsh
West Coast Ceili Band under 15
12 to 15 West Coast Grupa Ceol; right: Emma Keane and Emma McCann with the Paul Joyce Cup
Record results for Clifden CCE l from page 1
second and third places began reaching me, and this was looking to be a good day – Clifden Comhaltas were sweeping the boards in most competitions, with first places in all the main competitions at all ages. It was amazing – a
branch that started just five years ago was up and winning with the big branches. Saturday afternoon and Sunday saw the group and band competitions. All bands and groups played brilliantly, and I knew that they had done all they could do. And then the results
started – Clifden, first place in 12-15 Grupa Ceol; first in 12-15 Ceili Band; first in 15-18 Grupa Cheoil; first in 1518 Ceili Band; first in Senior Grupa Ceol. A full clean sweep! It was just unbelievable: 73 first place county medals and five trophies in groups and
bands alone, and 57 solo medals and around 30 solo trophies – 130 medals in total! Celebrations began, and are still going. Clifden music sessions could be heard all over the school, which is a norm for us at this stage when we go to the fleadh – we just want to play music!
It was a proud weekend for the branch and all its young members and it’s great to think they all go forward to the Connaught Fleadh in Castlebar on the weekend of July 5. The joke of the weekend was how we would manage to get all the trophies and cups home, and
that we should have brought a trailer. It’s not often that a group of musicians will have this level of success at a fleadh, and it was a day for us to cherish. The branch will hold a celebration night after the Leaving and Junior certificates are completed.
John’s years of service honoured Clifden man John G Walsh was honoured recently by Comhaltas as one of Galway’s most dedicated traditional music enthusiasts. To mark the organisation’s 60th anniversary, a number of people from each county were selected for a special award in recognition of their years of service to Comhaltas and traditional music. A spokeswoman for Clifden Comhaltas said: ‘We were delighted with the news, as John was a founding member of the branch back in the early 1980s and a founding member when it started again in 2009. ‘John is synonymous with music in Clifden and further afield. He is well known on the music festival and fleadh scene all over Ireland and has kept music alive here in Clifden for many years.’
An All Ireland Fleadh runner up in 1987, the Clifden branch said it was ‘lovely to see [John’s] music and work being recognised. He is an active member of our branch here again, and very deserving of this award.’ l Pictured: Peadar Brick (chairman Galway CCE), John G Walsh and Vince Jordan (president of Comhaltas)
Under 12 Competitions: Fiddle, Concertina, Tin Whistle Airs – 1st Caroline Coyne, Button Accordion – 1st James Ruddy, 2nd Maedhbh O’Neill; Piano Accompaniment – 1st Ciara McDermott, Tin Whistle – 1st Caoimhe Flaherty, Tin Whistle Airs – 2nd Caoimhe Flaherty, 1st Singing; Duet – 2nd Isabelle and James Ruddy, Sean Nós Dancing – 1st Maedhbh O’Neill , 2nd Ronan Nee, 3rd Megan Walsh; Harp – 1st Roisin King, Harp Slow Airs – 2nd Roisin King; 12-15 Competitions: Piano and Piano Accompaniment – 1st Amy Roberts, Concertina – 1st Kevin Holmes, 3rd Nada Ni Chuirinn, Tin Whistle – 2nd Nada Ni Chuirinn, 3rd Kevin Holmes, Tin Whistle Slow Airs – 1st Nada Ni Chuirinn, 3rd Amy Gannon; English Singing – 2nd Rian Sheridan; Sean Nós Dancing – 3rd Aoife O’Neill; Fiddle – 3rd Grace King, Fiddle Slow Airs – 1st Grace King, Duet – 1st Nada Ni Chuirinn & Orla Leavy, Ladies English Singing – 1st Amy Gannon; Trio – 2nd Amy Gannon, Grace King & Kevin Holmes; 15 – 18 Competitions: Irish Singing Men: 2nd Ronan O Conghaile, Button Accordion – 1st Luke Gannon, Tin Whistle – 1st Seamus Flaherty, 2nd Loretta Coyne; Flute and Tin Whistle Slow Airs – 1st Loretta Coyne; Harp, Harp Slow Airs, Mens Irish Singing – 1st Seamus Flaherty; Banjo – 1st Ronan Flaherty; Duet – 2nd Shauna Keaney & Ashling Canavan; Piano – 2nd Ashling Canavan; Fiddle Slow Airs – 3rd Shauna Keaney; Sean Nós Dancing – 1st Steven Coohill, 2nd Alice Hannon O’Toole; Over 18 Competitions: Banjo – 1st Brian Holmes, Piano Accompaniment – 1st Emma Keane, Flute and Tin Whistle – 1st Plunkett O’Toole; Button Accordion – 1st James Coyne; Newly Composed Tune – 2nd James Ruddy, 3rd Maedhbh O’Neill; West Coast Ceili Band – 1st in 12-15 and 15- 18, West Coast Grupa Ceol – 1st in 12-15, 1st in 15-18 and 1st in Senior
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