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- ↑ About Us The R and R, www.randr.ie
- 1 2 "Singing their praises after 100 years of curtain calls". Irish Independent. 13 December 2013.
- ↑ Profile: David Kelly: At long last, the world wakes up to Grandpa Joe The Sunday Times, 6 November 2005.
- ↑ Magic of amateurs stays on song for 100 years by Nicola Anderson, Irish Independent, 17 January 2013.
- ↑ The Rathmines and Rathgar Cup Feis Ceoil