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Scottish Celtic Media Festival shortlist announced. Two Galway based independent radio producers have been shortlisted for Best Radio Documentary Award at this year's Celtic Media Festival, which will take place in Scotland in April..
 Polaroids on the Salmon Weir, broadcast on Galway Bay FM and produced by Hand Around the World Productions received a nomination, as did Mad About Ned, a Well Said Production for RTÉ Radio One.
Polaroids on the Salmon Weir was broadcast on Galway Bay FM over five days in August as part of Heritage Week. It celebrated the city’s lost tradition of salmon poaching or snatching as it was known locally.
Originated and researched by Peadar Browne, Polaroids on the Salmon Weir was presented and produced by Headford based Maud Hand and featured retired snatchers, Fisheries Inspector Pat Gorman, bailiffs, solicitors, customers, spectators, writers and musicians, all of whom had been touched or inspired in some way by this practice.
The other local nominee, Inverin based Well Said Productions, was nominated for Mad about Ned a story about the life of one of Ireland’s oldest Traveller men, Ned Mc Donagh.
He is a man whose passion for singing lifts spirits and melts age and cultural barriers wherever he goes. As he says himself, “they’re mad about me in this town, and it’s mostly because of my songs”. After forty years travelling the roads of Clare and Galway, Ned settled in Ennis where he’s become one of the town’s best loved characters. Ned has not had an easy life but he can still rise above hardship and grief to sing his heart out. “If you hold down your head, your teeth will fall out” he says “so you might as well sing”.
Mad About Ned was broadcast on RTÉ Radio One on June 19 last year. It can be heard again anytime via the internet on www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone.
The programme was produced by Mary Owens, whose company Well Said previously won Best Documentary Award at the Celtic Media Festival in 2008.
The sound technician for both programmes was Connemara woman, Grainne O Malley.
The two programmes now go forward to the Celtic Media Festival Awards in Scotland in April, and will face a jury drawn from four Celtic countries or regions. Winners will be announced at the festival in Stornoway, between April 13-15.
Both productions were funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Source: Galway City Tribune
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