It was 1939 and little did the boy know that 80 years down the road he would still be ringing church bells or that his passion for the pursuit would see a competition one day held in his honour. After almost 30 years tolling by the Shannon, his job with the pharmaceutical company Wellcome saw Galbraith transferred to Dublin in 1968. “I loved it there and the only reason I stopped ringing in St Patrick’s was because of the stairs, the stairs were an absolute killer,” he said with a laugh. His talents then took him to Taney where the stairs to the bell tower were more manageable even if the bells then located there were less impressive. “Those bells have rung out for a lot of weddings since then,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times April 06, 2019 00:56 UTC