My abiding memory of Roy will always be at Letterkenny folk festival in 1979 where he was performing with Tubby Reynolds and Bath City Morris. I was there with Carlisle Morris rapper team and we were dancing on a makeshift stage at the late night session in the Ballyraine Hotel; it might have been a series of boards balanced on Guinness crates! At one point the stage appeared to be on the point of imminent collapse, and Roy (in the Andy Pandy outfit mentioned in the Telegraph obit) threw his considerable bulk full length across one corner of the stage to counterbalance the dancers at the other end.