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was launched in Kildysart at the weekend.
This is Bernie’s first recording and she is donating all receipts to the lo- cal branch of the Cystic Fibrosis As- sociation of Ireland.
The 16 songs on the album were
inspired by Paradise, a beautiful old estate, west of Ballynacally.
Bernie has a wide range of singing experiences and achievements hav- ing appeared as a guest singer at the Fleadh Nua Singers Club 2007 and at the Ennis Singers Club in 2005. She was the winner of the 2004 AIB You’re a Star competition and is a former member of the Cicilian Music Society, Limerick and of the Ennis Musical Society.
Bernie is the winner of two All-Ire- land Slogadh Sean Nos Competitions under the guidance of tutor, Johnny
McCarthy, NT (Ret) Ballynacally. She was also a winner of under age and senior singing titles at Clare Fleadh Cheoil.
The album was produced and re- corded by Michael O’Brien of the Ennis Singers Club and mastered by Frank Whelan of Comhaltas, Ceolte- oiri, Eireann.
Design was courtesy of Peadar McNamara from the Ennis Singers Club with graphics courtesy of Séan Downes, Congress Information and Opportunity Centre, Ennis.
Album photography was taken by
Mike McMahon, Ballynacally.
Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ire- land is a volunteering charitable or- ganisation, set up in 1963, to increase knowledge and awareness of CF and to give advice and support to people with CF and their families.
Cystic Fibrosis is Ireland’s most common life threatening genetically inherited disease. Approximately 1 in 20 people are carriers of the CF gene, and where two carriers parent a child together, there is a one in four chance of the baby being born with ‘oe