The McCarthys are a wonderful exaple of what is happing in Ireland on the traditional music scene.
Tom snr. was a wonderful musician, pipes, concertina, whistle, fiddle.
He was a long time friend in London and a tragically short-time neighbour when we moved to Miltown Malbay ten years ago - he died a year after we moved here.
As Peter has said, his three daughters and one son all took up the music and became great musicians.
Now the grandchildren of all four families are taking up the music and are showing signs of becoming good musicians themselves.
Jim Carroll