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The Genealogy Show – Landed Estates – Place and Space

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Lorna is a Professional Genealogist and Family Historian. She is a longstanding member of the Association of Professional Genealogist. Lorna is the Resident Genealogist for Dromoland Castle in County Clare. Lorna worked as Project Genealogist for George Boole *200 genealogy project for University College Cork and is an excellent researcher for Irish family histories.

Lorna produces and presents the successful show: ‘The Genealogy Radio show’ aired each Thursday at 4p.m. from beautiful Kilkee, Co. Clare at Raidio Corcabaiscinn and Podcasts are available weekly.

Lorna has delivered conference papers at Oxford; Lincoln College: Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet: (2012); seminar papers at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway, ‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’ and papers at Irish Conference of Medievalists on themes of Brian Boru and landscape of East Clare. Lorna has published on medieval themes and on maritime subjects. Her research areas are the MacNamaras and O’Briens of Thomond.

Lorna received her Certificate for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) in Dallas in March 2015.


Paulines Poems

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What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, Pauline is joined by Rob and friends to make for an enjoyable half hour show.

Radio Beams – Dr Siobhan O Connor Manager of Clare Haven Services.

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Radio Beams this weeks show is with well know Dr Siobhan O Connor manager of Clare Haven Services. Where the organisation does tremendous work over 30 years supporting women in abusive relationships. By a number of actions. Like shelter, accompanying women to court to give testimony against their partner. Education. Improving legislation,devising new legislation. Been an active member in the Clare Network on violence against women.
Tune in 3.30pm to www.rcb.ie Tuesday repeated on Thursday.

Community Unity

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James, Padraig , Chris present this weeks show. In the studio to talk about thier work experience with RCB through last week are Jenna and Vlad.
We will miss Damien who’s last day was on Friday , RCB wishes him a prosperous and happy future after being with us since 2019, and Brenda has the community diary of events for West Clare.

Statement by President Higgins on the death of Seán Keane

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Statement by President Higgins on the death of Seán Keane
“It is with sadness that lovers of Irish music and traditional arts across the world will have heard of the death of Seán Keane.
Seán’s incredible talent as a fiddle player brought so much joy to so many and was enjoyed and admired by audiences all over the world.
His virtuosity and skill was unique and has influenced so many musicians across the traditional arts. Indeed, Seán has been described as the ‘musician’s musician’. His generous legacy to traditional music and the arts will be remembered for generations to come.  
We are indebted to the Irish Traditional Music Archive who hold so many of Seán’s recordings and will ensure this legacy lives on and will be enjoyed through the ages.
May I express my deepest condolences to his children, Páraic, Deirdre and Darach and his grandchildren, to his extended family, to his friends in The Chieftains and to his wide circle of friends and musical colleagues.”

The RCB Sports Show

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In this weeks RCB Sports show Adrian O’ Connor chats with Nicholas Rynne and Seamus Hayes about last weeks Senior Hurling championships win for Clare against All Ireland Champions, Limerick. They also discuss this Sunday’s Munster Football Final Clash with Kerry at the Tús Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. We hear from Garry Kiely of West Clare Cycling Club about this Saturday’s Crotty Cup Cycle race in Kilkee. In the RCB Sports news Adrian and Jenna Murphy bring you local and international sports news to round off a great evening of sports on the RCB Sports Show. 

Tune in on Fridays evening at 7pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream
Official RCB Sports Page.
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Congratulations to Aaron Wade who won Saturday’s 89th edition of the Crotty Cup cycle race on Saturday (6th May). The main race A1/A2 elite men’s race was 126km long and featured a 3 lap course that took in Kilrush, Coorclare, Cree, Doonbeg, Bealaha, Kilkee and Moyasta.

Here is Aaron Wade being presented by his Grandfather Vincent Wade of Kilrush, Co Clare. Aaron’s Grandmother, Uncle and Father, Philip Wade were also there to support Aaron and witness his fantastic win in the 89th edition of Ireland’s oldest cycle race hosted by West Clare Cycle Club.
Below are the Full results of all races.

Paul Edson, Winner Aaron Wade, Gary Kiely


Crotty Cup A1 A2, 3 laps 132km
1st Aaron Wade, Club Ciclista Padronés Cortizo
2nd Ronan Killen, Lucan
3rd Mark Shannon, Burren Road Club
4th Evaldas Stankevicius Greenmount CA
5th Aiden Connell, Dungarvan
6th Patrick O Loughlin, Panduit
7th Bryan Nolan, Newcastle West Cycling Club
8th Simon Ryan, Greenmount CA
9th Cathal Moynihan, Tralee Manor West CC
10th John Hodge, DungarvanLadies L&L Cup W1/2/3, 2 laps 88km
1st Ella Doherty, UCD CC
2nd Mia Smith, Brother UK Colours
3rd Niamh O Dwyer, Blackhouse Racing
4th Cora McCarthy, Blarney CC
5th Deirdre Hynes, West Clare CC
West Clare Cycling Club Cup A3, 2 laps 88km

1st Evan Keane, unattached
2nd John Lawless, Castlebar CC
3rd Brendan Reen, Sliabh Luachra
4th Luke Costello, Killarney CC
5th Alan Brigdale, Burren Road Club
6th Paul Collins, Newcastle West Cycling Club
7th Daniel Edstone, Castlebar CC
8th Richard Quinn, CRNS
9th Brendan Talty, Burren Road Club
10th Fran Brannigan, Sliabh Luachra
Cotter Cup A4 M50 M60, 2 laps 88km
1st Michael O Shea, Killorglin CC
2nd John Hassett, West Clare CC
3rd Barry Sutton, Greenmount CA
4th Cathal Dillane, Galway Bay CC
5th Ciaran Reynolds, unattached Munster

1st Unplaced M50 – Fergal Kennedy Carlow RCC

1st Unplaced M60 – Tony Daly, Tralee Manor West C

Mikey’s Mix

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Mikey’s Mix on the air every Friday afternoon from 2:30pm, stay tuned for a treat where you’ll be in for a serious mix of music from classics to new music and even remixes which you wont hear anywhere else only on Mikey’s mix. Tune on Friday’s from 8pm to 9pm with your dancing shoes on and ready.

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The Genealogy Show – Exploring Place and Space.

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Our new series exploring place and space takes us through the journey of using places of local antiquity when delving into the histories of our ancestors.

Lorna is a Professional Genealogist and Family Historian. She is a longstanding member of the Association of Professional Genealogist. Lorna is the Resident Genealogist for Dromoland Castle in County Clare. Lorna worked as Project Genealogist for George Boole *200 genealogy project for University College Cork and is an excellent researcher for Irish family histories.

Lorna produces and presents the successful show: ‘The Genealogy Radio show’ aired each Thursday at 4p.m. from beautiful Kilkee, Co. Clare at Raidio Corcabaiscinn and Podcasts are available weekly.

Lorna has delivered conference papers at Oxford; Lincoln College: Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet: (2012); seminar papers at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway, ‘The Gaelic Lordships in Thomond, c. 1400-c.1500’ and papers at Irish Conference of Medievalists on themes of Brian Boru and landscape of East Clare. Lorna has published on medieval themes and on maritime subjects. Her research areas are the MacNamaras and O’Briens of Thomond.

Lorna received her Certificate for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) in Dallas in March 2015.



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Community Centre
Circular Road
Kilkee
Co. Clare
083 0232022

You are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of Raidió Corca Baiscinn either in person at the Kilkee Community Centre or through zoom – Notice below.

Please note that if you wish to join the Zoom link, please confirm by e-mail to no later than 28th April 2023 and the zoom invite details will then be forwarded to you.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2023


Raidió Corca Baiscinn

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Raidió Corca Baiscinn will be held
on Wednesday 03rd May 2023 at 7.00pm for the following purposes:

1) To receive the Minutes of previous AGM
2) Overview and report on Raidió Corca Baiscinn Activities
3) To transact any other business

By order of the Board
Paul Williams
Cathaoirleach
Date: 12 th April 2023



Paul Williams (Cathaoirleach) Joseph McCloskey (Rúnaí) Mary Arthur (Cisteoir), Marie Keane, Kevin Heapes, Mike Taylor.
Registered as South West Clare Community Radio CLG Registered No: 814150, Dublin, Ireland

Paulines Poems

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What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, This week Pauline is joined weekly Anna, Lee and Noel

Radio Beams: Philip Brennan,teacher,artist,writer and bird watcher.

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Radio Beams show this week is well know Phillip Brennan born in Ennis and now lives in Newmarket on Fergus.
Left home at 15 to become a Christian Brother and 5yrs later met his late wife. Phillip loves art and have exhibited in many places.
Also written a few books, and also loves Bird Watching. One day he spotted 96 species of birds.
Tune in Tuesday 3.30pm on www.rcb.ie

Community Unity – Carrigaholt Kindness Cafe,KIlkee Library Anne Finnucane Prof. Roger O Sullivan.

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Kicking off the show today Teresa pays a visit to the Carrigaholt National School Kindness Cafe to speak to the Pupils about all the things they are involved in. Tereasa and Brenda visit Culturlann Sweeney Library and speak to Anne Finnucane about some of the events in the Library.
Professor Roger O’Sullivan, IPH Director of Ageing Research and Development on the line to speak about a report which found that despite a high level of awareness about the benefits of physical activity and recommended guidelines, women were less active than men and highlights the need to understand and address barriers to physical activity for other groups. Almost half of respondents in Ireland (46%) and a third in Northern Ireland (33%) knew the weekly recommendations to do at least 150 minutes of physical activity, although only around three in 10 across both jurisdictions were physically active five days a week or more. It found that women were less likely to be active and more likely to be inactive than men in both jurisdictions – this was despite high awareness of the benefits of physical activity amongst women.
We meet the Zambian Judo Club on a visit to Moyasta School during the West Clare Open Judo tournament in Clare with music and singing from the pupils of Moyasta School

RCB Sports Show

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In this weeks RCB Sports Show Adrian and Nicholas discuss tomorrow nights clash with the All Ireland Champions, Limerick. The game will be held at the TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. We also chat about this Sunday’s Munster Football Final with Kerry which is also held at the TUS Gaelic Grounds with a 4pm throw in. It’s a fourth provincial final meeting between the counties since 1992, and a 15th in total for Clare. Adrian and Nicholas chat about the Clare Senior ladies Camogie clash with Limerick in their bit for the Munster final which will be played at the TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Join us tonight for a packed evening of GAA.

Tune in on Fridays evening at 7pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream

GAA, ClareGAA, TippGAA, MunsterGAA,


Mikey’s Mix

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Mikey’s Mix on the air every Friday afternoon from 2:30pm, stay tuned for a treat where you’ll be in for a serious mix of music from classics to new music and even remixes which you wont hear anywhere else only on Mikey’s mix. Tune on Friday’s from 8pm to 9pm with your dancing shoes on and ready.

Mikey's Mix

Londis brings Davy Fitz back home

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Londis recently brought Ireland’s Fittest Family coach and hurling legend Davy Fitzgerald back to his roots to host a unique training session for 30 lucky students at Cooraclare National School in Kilrush, Co. Clare.

The school won the Londis sponsored competition to win a training day with the Clare All-Ireland winning player (1995 and 1997) and manager (2013) as part of Londis’ sponsorship of hit television show, Ireland’s Fittest Family. The national school, which houses approximately 80 pupils was delighted to have the local legend put them through their paces on Wednesday last, April 26.

It was a hugely successful and enjoyable occasion for the students and Davy, who commented: “It was great fun to team up with Londis and deliver the coaching session to the students. I hope it was as enjoyable for them as it was for me and that they benefitted from the training. Staying fit and enjoying your sport is very important and I was delighted with Londis when they approached me with this idea. It was wonderfully enjoyable.”

Londis has been sponsor to Ireland’s Fittest Family for the last four seasons and Sales Director, Conor Hayes, was delighted with the day: “It was great to have Davy involved on the day and that our local Clare Londis retailers, Kevin and Michelle McNamee was able to enjoy watching the session. Promoting health and fitness is very important to Londis, which is reflected in our sponsoring initiatives like Ireland’s Fittest Family.”

Cooraclare National School Principal, Martina Hehir said, “Memories were made in our school today that will last a lifetime. I want to thank Londis for organising this unique event and I want to thank Davy for sharing with our children his passion and expertise. It was an amazing success and undoubtably will be at the top of the memory bank of the experiences of their days spent in Cooraclare National School.”

Community Unity

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To start us off this week we have Carmen Cronan organiser of Clare Garden Festival at the Ennis Show Grounds this coming weekend. Brenda with this weeks Community Diary of events for the area and surroundings. James speaks to members of West Clare Taekwondo Club Wictoria Abram, Odin McNulty, Luke Moriarity and Ciara Wealeans of the West Clare Taekwondo Club ahead of next weeks European Championships in Romania.

Congella McGuire heritage officer at Clare County Council who helps local heritage groups develop heritage projects.

Next is Natalie, Joanne and Sue from Seal Rescue Ireland which works with volunteers around the coast to perform seal rescues, rehabilitaion and after being given the seal of approval released back into the sea.
Finishing off with Keith Enright founder of ASD Ireland head office in Limerick, which provides socially inclusive activities for people with autism and support to their families.

RCB Sports Show

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In this his weeks RCB Sports Show Adrian chats with Nicholas Rynne and Seamus Hayes on all things GAA. We discuss round 1 of the Munster Hurling Championships held in Cusack Park this Sunday and also Saturday nights Clash with Limerick and Clare in the Munster SFC semi final in Limerick. We also look back at all the Clare GAA games in minor and U20’s this week to round off a great evening of sport on the RCB sports show.

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Tune in on Fridays evening at 7pm on 92.5fm – 94.8fm and Internet live stream

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