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Ollie Jennings recounted jigs and reels with The Chieftains

Declan Lynch

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.