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Aoife Ní Bhriain Image Name: Aoife Ní Bhriain Description: Winner of the inaugural Seán Ó Riada Gold Medal Aoife Ní Bhriain.
Bonn Óir Sheáin Uí Riada / Seán Ó Riada Image Name: Bonn Óir Sheáin Uí Riada / Seán Ó Riada Description: Bonn Óir Sheáin Uí Riada / Seán Ó Riada Copyright: Diane Cusack / RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
Seán Ó Riada gold medal Image Name: Seán Ó Riada gold medal Description: Seán Ó Riada gold medal - bonn óir Sheáin Uí Riada Copyright: RTÉ RnaG / Diane Cusack
Pádraig Ó Mathúna with Seán Ó Riada medal Image Name: Pádraig Ó Mathúna with Seán Ó Riada medal Description: Cashel goldsmith Pádraig Ó Mathúna with Seán Ó Riada medal. Copyright: Diane Cusack / RTÉ RnaG

Anocht, beidh 15 fidléir ar stáitse in Óstán an Rochestown Park i gCorcaigh agus iad san iomaíocht do Bhonn Óir Sheáin Uí Riada.  Chomh maith leis an mbonn, gheobhaidh an buaiteoir €2000.  Beidh ceoltóirí ó fud fad na hÉireann – Ciarraí, Ard Mhacha, BÁC, Liatroim, Tiobraid Árann agus Port Láirge – agus cúigear as Meiriceá, san iomaíocht sa chraobh.  Is iad Connie O’Connell as Corcaigh, Seán Keane as BÁC agus Ciarán Ó Maonaigh ó Thír Chonaill, na moltóirí a bheidh ar an gcomórtas.  Is é Peadar Ó Riada a chuirfidh an ócáid i láthair beo ó Chorcaigh.

Tonight, 15 fiddlers will take to the stage in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork to compete for the Seán Ó Riada Gold Medal.  As well as the medal, the winner will take home €2000.  The finalists come from across the country – Kerry, Armagh, Dublin, Leitrim, Tipperary, Waterford and Mayo – as well as five musicians from the USA.  The judges are Seán Keane from Dublin, Connie O’Connell from Cork and Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, from Donegal.  Peadar Ó Riada presents the final live from Cork tonight.