Here's a nice reel I was asked to play (is this it, M?).

I used to hear this tune more than I do now.  Maybe that's just because I need my ears syringed.

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.

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.

This sounds like the stage between mass arrests and sentencing.

I think this tune is on a record of Kevin Burke and Jackie Daly.  I know it is in CRÉ 3, number 119 as that's where I stole this version from.

I never knew the name of this tune and seems to have about 6.3 half versions of it floating around in my head.

While I was in the process of stealing tunes out of Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol 3, I found this version with this name.  It is number 116 and comes from Roger Sherlock's flute playing.

I never knew the name of this tune and seems to have about 6.3 half versions of it floating around in my head.

While I was in the process of stealing tunes out of Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol 3, I found this version with this name.  It is number 116 and comes from Roger Sherlock's flute playing.

Here's a tune I was asked to play.  It's on Matt Molloy's first record.  I don't know where he got the tune or the name from.  It sounds a bit odd played slowly but here goes ...

(The quicker version seems to recover its composure a bit)

Brendán Breathnach put it in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 3 (No. 12) in case you want to see the dots, or blood spatters.

Here's a flute friendly sort of reel.  Brendán Breathnach got it from Denis Murphy but it appears on a few other people's records, including one of Mary Bergin and one of Matt Molloy.

My playing here is more Lame Knack Cross than Lománach Cross but hopefully it is still a cross that is possible to bear.

I must have pressed the wrong buttons on the recorder.  Poor Lucy sounds like she's calling for rescue from an oil drum, or maybe it's a big soup tin.

This is a good sturdy reel of Scottish stock - more soup.  I hope Lucy isn't stuck in an echoey BROTHel.

Here's a common enough reel named after a far from common fiddle player.  The tune may well have other names but this is what Roger Sherlock called it on a record.