Radio reviews: ‘After a lifetime of hardship, the Poor Ould Fellas don’t expect to be asked to subscribe to some internet racket’
On Sunday Miscellany (RTÉ1, Sundays, 9am) the impresario Ollie Jennings was recalling the first concert he promoted, 50 years ago. It was The Chieftains in Galway’s Leisureland, and he ended up with a full house and a profit of 50 quid.
But it was the journey there that lifted this from a personal memoir to a thing of resonance for many listeners – literally the journey there, as he described hitchhiking from Galway to Tipperary to meet Paddy Moloney to try to persuade the formidable Chieftain to do business with this 21-year-old student.
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