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Window on Wicklow Episode 21: Music Night for Eimear Byrne

By Jamie Ryan · East Coast FM · 12 May 2026

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Jamie Ryan joined the community in the Arklow Bay Hotel as supporters gathered to raise funds for Eimear Byrne’s life-saving heart surgery in the United States.

Jamie Ryan travels to the Arklow Bay Hotel for a major fundraising music night in support of Eimear Byrne. The 30-year-old primary school teacher urgently requires life-saving open-heart surgery in the United States. In this episode we hear from Eimear, her family, friends, and members of the local community about the overwhelming support behind the campaign and what it says about the spirit of Arklow.

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Reporting by Jamie Ryan for East Coast FM, funded by the News Reporting Scheme. Republished by News Room under the scheme’s reuse permission.

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