Here's a nice jig which I stole from the same place as the previous two tunes.

Not much to say about this tune ... common as muck but feels better in the ear than muck.

As with most common tunes it's common because it's a good tune and so people like it.  It's also a good reel for learning on the flute, without too many "funny bits".

Here's a Micko (or is it Micho?) Russell reel.  It sounds a bit like something else - don't they all?

I'm never sure about the Micko / Micho thing. A badly written "k" can have a fair bit of "h"iness about it so maybe they're the same thing.  I'm sure there are plenty of people who know the answer to this crucial question.

I think this jig is from a song : "The Roll-ick-ing Boys of Tan-der-a-gee".

All I know of Tandragee is that the Northern version of Tayto crisps are made there.  Whatever about other questions of nationality, surely the two Tayto communities in Ireland could come together.

Here's a great reel for flute, fiddles or flugelhorns.  I'm working of the layout for an irish fluglehorn tunes site but it's not ready for air yet.

Here's a reel to get misty-eyed about while you travel out on the high Cs.  If you know any fiddle players who haven't quite got round to playing elevated notes it can be a fairly passable recreation to watch their various ways of playing the second part of this reel.

Here's a good flute tune. I don't know what it's called. It can be found, among other places, in the book "Trip to Sligo" among the tunes from the South Sligo flute player and singer, Colm O'Donnell.

If someone could clone Clones then there would be no need to miss Monaghan ever again.

Sorry for trotting out the same puny pun as before. I have no imagination.

This reel is a good stalwart of sessions and recordings wherever Irish traditional music is played.  I hope this version is OK.

Someone else misses it too.

Here's another pelt peeling for poor felix.

I've not played this tune for years as there used to be someone living here who played it all the time.  The only thing more annoying than that was almost any other tune he played.  My immune system is just beginning to allow the tune back into my head now.

Like ways to skin a cat, there is more than one set of notes to make a Miss McDonald's Reel. This is a nice light sort of a one.

I've been mostly dining on stout, gin, water and nervously nibbled nails over the last while - not a burger in site. I can't say that I miss McDonald's at all. In fact I'd be happy if the one in the centre of Belfast wasn't there. It makes the surrounding area smell of stale fat which isn't very nice for the tourists who are waiting across the road for their rain soaked open top bus tour of the city. At least when the bus arrives it takes them away from the smell of I'm Lovin' It.