This wild windy and wet morning was a suitable setting for the spooky goings on, on this mornings show. From Hector hearing a scratching noise outside his window last night only to discover it was the watering can scraping along the tarmac to further investigations into the spooky picture Ronan told us about in the Galway Independent yesterday. On How's your Country This Morning we went straight to the horses mouth as we spoke to photographer Johnathan Curran who took the photo below at about 5 or 6pm on an overcast March evening in 2009 down by the Long Walk in Galway. He told us was standing at St. Mary's Church at the Claddagh and was taking 3 sets of 13 photos in a practice shot to make 1 panoramic shot from Jury's to the Claddagh Hall.
It wasn't until he developed the photos and was trying to stitch them together to create the shout that he noticed the woman in the photo. Some say she looks like a num other say she looks like 1 of the old Claddagh Women wearing a Galway Shawl but one thing is for sure she was not in the shot when Johnathan took it and hasn't been in any shot he took in that area since....
Here is the photo in question which he assures us is not altered... What do you think???
The ghostly figure at The Claddagh taken by local photographer Jonathan Curran
On Put Your Town On The Map our Champ Dave O'Flynn's fact on Ballymacoda today was that nearby Cable Island has the ruins of a light house as in the 1940's a steam paddle boat called 'Sirius' ran aground on rocks near Ballycotton so the Lighthouse was moved there and left go to ruin on Cable island.. Out Challenger Bernard Reilly didn't have as accurate a fact but Broadford is a town on the Kildare/ Meath Border and must been only village not hit by the boom... Hector wanted more info than that & managed to get out of him the Flanagan's is the local pub...
Down to the business at hand and our Champ Dave was left running round in circles as he could not name 5 things that are round... So the title & 6 months Netflix subscription goes to Broadford and lets hope Bernard has a few more factual facts for us tomorrow..
Now as it is Ash Wednesday Hector was curious as to what people were giving up for Lent, there was the usually giving up chocolate like Aoife in AA and Emma at the newsdesk says she has to give up Vintage Cheddar & Onion crisps. We spoke to Johnny from Monaghan who despite having ten euro on
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Hector has decided to give up using his mobile phone in public places like restaurants, cafes etc this will be some challenge as he is always on it... We will see how he gets on. Alan our producer is a chocoholic and is addicted to Twirls even eating them at night before he goes to bed so Hector has set him the challenge of giving up Twirls for Lent...
Watch this space to see how they get on...
Next Sunday is paddypower.com Cheltenham Trial Day at Nass Racecourse and all this week we have a daily prize of a champagne lunch for 2 people including race cards and admission all you have to do is guess if the horse Hector is talking about is a real horse so is 'At the Races' or a fake horse 'Not at the Races'...
Jenny Jones from Longford was today's lucky winner and is in the draw on Friday to have her trip to the races VIP'ed with helicopter flights and an overnight stay at the Four Star Killashee House Hotel in Nass...
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Finally on Class Act Hector shouted out for a child even though it was an adult we needed but as we had so many Children text in Alan said we would make it an all child affair. While our Current Champ Aaron Lloyd fought diligently our challenger Chloe Slevin from Mullingar managed to shout her name first to claim victory and a family pass to the Wax Museum and their Wax Factor Studio where you can make your own video.
Finally we gave the Emailers, Facebookers and Early Birds a chance to win One Night Only Tickets and the lucky winners tickets each are
Patrick Cunney, Swinford, Co. Mayo
Karen McCreesh, Newry Co. Down
Alma Kennedy McLorey, Athboy. Co Meath
Aisling Keane, Blanchardstown
That's all for today folks chat to you tomorrow on RTÉ 2FM from 7 -9am Keep Her Lit
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