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Albert Fry playing guitar Image Name: Albert Fry playing guitar Description: Albert Fry playing guitar 1974 Copyright: RTÉ Archives
Albert Fry on 'Meitheal' (1973) Image Name: Albert Fry on 'Meitheal' (1973) Description: Albert Fry on 'Meitheal' (1973) Copyright: RTÉ Archives
Damien Ó Dónaill Image Name: Damien Ó Dónaill Description: Damien Ó Dónaill Copyright: Declan Doherty

Ar an chlár seo inniu le Damien Ó Dónaill, cloisfidh muid an méid a bhí le rá ag an Iar-Chomhairleoir Contae Pádraig Ó Dochartaigh nuair nár roghnaigh Fine Gael é mar iarrthóir do thoghchán na Comhairle Contae i 2009.  Bhain Pádraig a shuíochán mar chomhairleoir neamhspleách ina dhiaidh sin.  Beidh muid ag dul siar go dtí 1980 go Mín na Manrach nuair a bhíothas ag bagairt an scoil a dhruid agus beidh Barry Ó Dúgáin ag insint dúinn faoin stair a bhí ar chúl dhruid na scoile.  Beidh Albert Fry, Uachtarán Chonradh na Gaeilge ag an am, agus ceoltóir aitheanta, le cluinstin sa mhír fosta.

This week, Damien Ó Dónaill brings us more great material from the RnaG Donegal archives.  We’ll hear an interview with former County Councillor Pádraig Ó Dochartaigh in 2009 when he wasn’t chosen by Fine Gael as a candidate for the council elections.  He subsequently won a seat as an independent candidate.  We’ll go back to 1980 when it the Mín na Manrach school was threatened with closure, with Barry Ó Dúgáin explaining the history behind the story.  We’ll also hear from the President of Conradh na Gaeilge at the time, Albert Fry, also a well-known musician, speaking on the subject.