Day: 4 August 2017

Dornoch Highland Games Results

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Overcast but dry for most of the day in the far north east. Ceol mor winner Anna Kummerlöw from Germany is pictured with Champion Piper Derek Midgley from Tinton Falls, New Jersey, USA. Ceol mor judges were John Don Mackenzie and Jimmy Jackson and ceol beag DJ MacIntyre and Archie Maclean. Piobaireachd1 Anna Kummerlöw2 Cameron MacDougall3 Derek Midgley4 Kevin MacLean March1 Derek Midgley2 Cameron MacDougall3 John MacDonald4 Kevin MacLean S&R1…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Fintan Lalor/ Gary Innes/ Lochaber/ Highland Games/ Poll result/ McCallum’s Marathon

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Following John Kelly’s informative feature on the history of the All-Ireland Pipe Band Championship, Patrick Byrne has sent us this atmospheric picture (above). It is of the famous Fintan Lalor Pipe Band parading through the streets of Dublin in the 1960s.  Can anyone help us to identify the pipers? Black mark to Gary Innes (pictured) the presenter of BBC Radio Scotland’s popular ‘Take the Floor’ country dance music show. In…

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