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Every voice we’ve recorded since 2022.
Ep 49: Noel Sheerin
Episode 49 Noel Sheerin - A Journey Through Boyle Part 2HOSTS & GUESTS Carlo Cretaro Noel Sheerin In November 1963 Noel Sheerin was nine years old, going on ten, and he was sitting in Cosgrove's pub next door to his family's shop in Boyle. The Cosgroves had...
Ep 48: Owen O’ Donohoe
Episode 48 Owen O' Donohoe - Challenging Beliefs
Ep 47: Pete Higgins
Episode 47 Pete Higgins - Music, Documentaries & Memories HOST & GUEST Florence Cretaro Pete Higgins The band were three weeks old. Four lads out of Boyle, none of them older than fifteen, and somebody had got them a Christmas party in Castlerea Prison....
Ep 46: Mary Lavin
Episode 46 Mary Lavin - The History of King HouseHOSTS & GUESTS Carlo Cretaro Mary Lavin RESOURCES King House Website Discover Boyle In 1987 Roscommon County Council came to Boyle, looked at the wreck of a Georgian townhouse with the roof fallen in and...
Ep 45: Dermot Leyden
Episode 45 Dermot Leyden - "Thanks for not listening"HOSTS & GUESTS Florence Cretaro Dermot Leyden RESOURCES Minor's Way Memory Radio Boyle Best of Memories There was an old valve radio in a house in Arigna, and a boy of five or six who was not supposed to...
Ep 44: Thomas Mullaney
Episode 44 Thomas Mullaney - Historical Preservation & Economic PerspectivesHOSTS & GUESTS Carlo Cretaro Thomas Mullaney RESOURCES Raphoe, County Donegal, 1968. A young man from Croghan is three weeks into his first job in the...
Ep 43: Leon Wamari
Episode 43 Leon Wamari - Podcasting, Business & Personal DevelopmentHOSTS & GUESTS Carlo Cretaro Leon Wamari RESOURCES I Talk Real Talk Instagram Some days, Leon Wamari's mother would walk with him down towards Lough Key and hold up the phone...
Ep 42: Danny Tiernan
Episode 42 Danny Tiernan - Echoes of HistoryHOSTS & GUESTS Carlo Cretaro Danny Tiernan RESOURCES Connaught Rangers - King House In the late fifties and early sixties, there were so few cars in Boyle that Danny Tiernan and his friends could play...
Ep 41: Colm Duignan
Episode 41 Colm Duignan - The Stronglife Gym StoryHOSTS & GUESTS Carlo Cretaro Colm Duignan RESOURCES Stronglife Website Stronglife Facebook Stronglife Instgram Colm Duignan was an hour into a shift at MBNA in Carrick-on-Shannon, headset on, when he...
Ep 40: Bernie Carty
Episode 40 Bernie Carty - His Life StoryHOSTS & GUESTS Carlo Cretaro Tony Conboy Bernie Carty RESOURCES Elphin Windmill Bernie Carty was about fifteen, sitting in a hotel in Boyle late at night, when he found out where he was going. A priest in Armagh...
Ep 39: Val Robus
Episode 39 Val Robus - Magnum LadyHosts & Guests Carlo Cretaro Val Robus Resources Website Facebook Instagram Twitter Heart of Sligovery week the care home in Sligo ran an art session, and every week one woman sat it out. She was not a child, she told them,...
Ep 38: Clive Roe
Episode 38 Clive Roe - 250th Anniversary of The Church of IrelandHosts & Guests Carlo Cretaro Clive Roe There is a plaque on the wall of the Church of Ireland in Boyle that sits right in front of everybody as they take their seats. If you have been at a...
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