Music plays again at ballroom

THE music will sound again this month in a remote village dance hall made famous as the Ballroom of Romance by author William Trevor.

Margo, Daniel O’Donnell’s singing sister, used to do her homework in the 1960s behind the stage of the Rainbow Ballroom, Glenfarne, Co Leitrim, while waiting for her turn to sing with the Keynotes band as they set up.

Big Tom was given his first major dance-hall chance and named his band The Mainliners at the venue.