Last Stop - Grianstad

Artists Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty invite you to listen to a very special solstice radio programme on Dublin Digital Radio that aired on Tuesday 21 December.

Made for the Rainbow Ballroom of Romance, an iconic dancehall in County Leitrim renowned for its country music and showband concerts, the show features stories, music and sound effect contributions.

Excerpts from a radio play featuring Patrick Curley and Peter Broderick run alongside specially arranged country songs by Ruth Clinton, Aoife Hammond and Cormac MacDiarmada - inspired by the Ballroom's famous ‘romantic interludes’ (where the host would take the stage and sing a slow set with the band). Eimear Walshe debuts an extract from a new story, 'Cuckquean' and Natalia Beylis presents Field Recordings of Trains from LPs. Close to the Ballroom are Thur mountain, with its megalithic tombs (pictured) and the long-decommissioned cross-border Sligo-Leitrim & North Countys Railway route.