Martin McGinley, who is originally from

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, County Donegal, is a former BBC journalist and also edited the '' Derry Journal'', the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. He ran his own PR company Martin McGinley PR. He is now music development manager with the Donegal Music Education Partnership, based in Letterkenny. He is also a traditional fiddler player, and a founding member (1989-1990) of Dervish. He presented the RTÉ television series ''The Pure Drop'', and presented radio programmes on traditional Irish music on RTÉ Radio 1 and

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*http://www.martinmcginleypr.com Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish fiddlers Musicians from County Donegal Newspaper editors from Northern Ireland 21st-century violinists {{Ireland-musician-stub