Heading out of 2023 and into 2024, Spancilhill is still sung as the last song at the end of Robbie's First Friday singing session every month.

Robbie McMahon died on December 13th, 2012. His spirit lives on in our monthly singing session. I had the pleasure of singing his song The Red Cross Social at our session on Friday last, December 1st.

The singing session was started by Robbie in January 2002 in Duggan's Pub in Spancilhill. Sadly Mike Duggan's Pub did not reopen after Covid. During the Covid years we sang online with some monthly but mostly bi-monthly wonderful sessions.

We now meet every first Friday in Cnoc Na Gaoithe, a wonderful venue in Tulla, Co. Clare.

George Henderson and Mick Scanlan who were at the first session in January 2002 still regularly join us.

If anyone is ever around at the start of a month do drop in. We averaged 26 singers a month during 2023.