FR. SEAN Ó GALLCHÓIR, BORN 1946, GORT AN CHOIRCE

Fr. Sean Ó Gallchóir has been Parish Priest of Gortahork for ten years and previously served as curate in Gweedore where he grew up. In 1971, following his ordination, he spent twenty years as a teacher at the boys’ boarding school at Falcarragh and he discusses the changes in education over those years. He is passionate about the GAA and about Gaelic football and has made a great contribution to the sporting historical record by his collection of the statistics of games over many years, which have been published. He has a great love of the local Irish culture and its promotion and he discusses his opinion of the importance of the church in a rural locality.