Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets was the best-selling record around the world in 1955.  It was also the year that Bob Laird visited New Ross to celebrate his 5^th birthday while JFK and his wife Jackie visited Dublin. Maria Mahony started school in 1955 and got a wallop from a nun for saying she was named after Maria Goretti… School days weren’t so much fun back in the 1950s it seems. Maria recites ‘If I were a Lady’ by Percy French, coincidentally Bob organised a Percy French 100^th Anniversary Gathering in Skerries last summer.  Small World.

Broadcast: 24/02/2020