I have hesitated to add to this thread as I haven't seen Packie (or Bonnie) for at least 30 years when I interviewed him. I saw no point in adding to the 'he wouldn't remember me' list because I scarcely think he would. He was, however, one of the factors that brought me back into music in a roundabout way, because I found and read Recollections Of A Donegal Man while exiled in Newcastle working on a doomed series which was never transmitted and got most of us involved fired. The other main factor was meeting Nancy Kerr and Eliza Carthy in the same library where I found the book, but I digress. Recollections contains tall tales of his time as outdoor clerk at the law firm Rhiannon mentions, some of which he had recounted to me in our conversation two decades earlier.

I wish Packie a wonderful day. Bonnie: Make sure he has one!