Martin McGinley, who is originally from Raphoe, [1] County Donegal, is a former BBC journalist and also edited the Derry Journal , the Donegal Democrat [1] and the Donegal People's Press . 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 BBC Radio 3.