Show Notes
In 2012, Irish Rallying lost one of its shining lights. Rory Galligan was just 39 years old when he succumbed to Motor Neurone Disease. In his short life he achieved a massive amount, winning the inaugural Billy Coleman Award which provided a platform to go on and win the Peugeot 106 Super Cup a year later. His undoubted talent saw him with the Mitsubishi Evo challenge in 2004 which secured him his second works drive having done so already with Peugeot in 2002. Here we discover Rory Galligan the Person and Rory Galligan the driver. This is The Rory Galligan Story Intro 00:00 Greg Shinnors & Gordon Noble 01:18 Tom Walsh 34:53 Andrew Browne & Martin Brady 50:09 Willie Mavitty 1:46:22 Stephen Curran 2:00:17 If you'd like to donate to the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association you can do so here https://imnda.ie/donate/ and you can contact them on Freephone number 1800 403 403 Music from Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark copyright of SME (on behalf of Columbia); SOLAR Music Rights Management, LatinAutor - SonyATV, LatinAutorPerf, UMPG Publishing, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, Global Music Rights LLC, Sony Music Publishing, and 11 music rights societies.
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