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Community Radio Youghal Country Music Awards 2010

The Walter Raleigh Hotel was the venue for the 2nd Annual Community Radio Youghal Country Music Awards Music Awards 2010. The spectacular and glitzy awards ceremony took place on Monday 15th November last. Report: Shane Supple / Photo: Michael Hussey www.youghalonline.com Email: news@youghalonline.com.

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Community Radio Youghal held there 2nd Annual Country Music awards on Monday 15th November last in the Walter Raleigh Hotel in Youghal. There was a fantastic crowd on the night with people traveling from all over to see there favourite stars of Country Music on stage. The Award winners were kept a closely guarded secret, with only the organisers and the acts themselves privileged to the information. The rest of us had to wait till the night to see who would win what award.

Proceedings got underway with new up and coming singer John McNicholl who started the night off. John’s band was to accompany all the winners on the night and a fantastic job they did too. They stayed on stage throughout the evening backing all the different winners. Each winner had a chance to sing three songs and this kept the whole night moving along with little time between acts. Tommy Collins of Community Radio Youghal was MC on the night and he kept things moving along at a nice professional pace. Various radio presenters and members of CRY were on hand to present the awards to the winners.

Shane Supple from CRY presents the " Best Songwriter" Award to Linda Welby with her daughter Bríd and manager Ray O'Donoghue

The awards were based on number of plays requested on Community Radio Youghal for the preceding month and voting and counting was carried out over the weeks during the months of September & October. Many different Country music shows on CRY were used to log the voting and the response from the general listening public was fantastic with each show logging a large number of phone calls. Well done to all involved for a hard nights work and to all at CRY for providing us with a great service in our local area. Awards went to the following singers and acts.

"Best Irish Male Artist" John McNicholl

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Most Requested Singer: Johnny Mullin

Irish Female Artist: Louise Morrissey

International Male Singer Award: John McNicholl

Solo Hall of Fame Award: Peter Burke

Up & Coming star Award: Conor O Sullivan

Louise Morrissey In Youghal Fundraiser For Ecuador Charity

By Christy Parker | Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

Fr. John Keane with his friends from Equador: Marcia Rojas, Maria Renee de Sanzetenca, Dorian Sanzeenea, Fritzy Sambrana and Karla Rojas

Tickets are now on sale -and selling fast- for a fundraising dance featuring legendary Irish country star Louise Morrissey at the Walter Raleigh Hotel, Youghal. The concert, on Friday November 7th hopes to raise money towards the missionary work Fr. John Keane, a Youghal priest working amongst the extreme poor people in Ecuador.

Fr. Keane arrived in Ecuador in 2006 and works with the St. James the Apostle Society in the largely urban setting of the Good Shepherd Parish, La Libertad. “It’s a vast area, where thousand of people live side by side in cane shacks,” he explains. “There is no work, no money, health facilities and worse of all, nowhere to grow crops for self-sufficiency ”

Against this grinding poverty, the priest has organized several relief programs. A fortnightly ration distribution scheme attempts to feed 2,000 people for two weeks at a cost of €2,000. He also runs medicine purchasing program for malnourished babies and small children, a daily breakfast program for children who arrive hungry at school, clothing supplies and assist with cane house construction.
“Every cent raised goes direct to people in dire poverty. There are no Read more