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Joe McManamon

Irish Country From Down Under Tuesdays 12-2am, Thursdays 10pm-12am, Sundays 6-8am Email: eire3@bigpond.com Website: www.australiancommunitynews.com Born at Belmullet and attended S Muredach's College at Ballina. Lived in London for 7 years prior to moving to Australia where he has lived at Sydney, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Armidale and Tamworth. A career in marketing and public relations has taken Joe to all corners of Australia and to several countries. He is married to Kath, a well known Line Dance Instructor and Choreographer. Together they instigated The AUTRALIAN Line Dancing Championships. Joe has one son, Sean and a grandson, Jamie born August this year. He has an unusual hobby, that of producing benefit events pro bono. He has done 446 of these and helped raise $1.5M for a wide variety of projects. Radio is one of his loves and he has enjoyed broadcasting of several stations Down Under. Country Music especially Irish Artists fill his home studio. He also started The Australian Country Buskers Championships at the Tamworth Festival and produces shows throughout each state and throughout the year. When he is way from the music his passion is that of cooking and he is as much at home catering for 6 as he does for 66. Reading is one of his pass times. Fiction and horse racing is what he searches for. Just before 6am he heads off with their little Shitzu for an hour around the village where he lives lose to Tamworth. His favourite entertainer is Daniel O'Donnell whom he has met and interviewed. Daniel is a regular supporter of Joe's community work and even provided him with 'the shirt off his back as an auction item during a show at Sydney. Joe's favourite moment of sentimentality was meeting with Pat Garret at the Limerick Studios and broadcasting live from there. Joe plans to be back in Ireland in September 2011.