Episode 3 I Lár an Aonaigh

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We provide a wide range of treatments and therapies here.

We provide aromatherapy, reflexology,

which is really good for people with MS. It helps them to de-stress.

We also provide physiotherapy,

which is an excellent service for people with MS.

It helps them maintain their muscle tone

and keep them in their optimum health.

And it also helps them maintain their daily lifestyles

by attending physiotherapy.

People meet other people with the condition

and they can discuss their different symptoms

and find that they're not alone in their MS journey.

That other people have a similar journey to them

and it gives them great comfort knowing that.

Northern Ireland has the highest MS in the world, per capita of people.

It's a remarkable statistic?

A remarkable statistic, for our small country.

There's over 4,000 people who have MS.

At the moment,

people are waiting a lot longer than the 18 weeks for a new appointment,

and people are waiting longer

for the review appointment with their consultant neurologist.

What type of detrimental effect can such a long wait have

on patients who are living with MS?

The detrimental impact can be that it can affect their mental health.

They become... Very high anxiety levels, they might become depressed.

That's what people tell us they're experiencing during waiting times.

There will also be uncertainty,

and they might be experiencing new symptoms

and they're maybe not receiving any treatment for that,

so they might be experiencing pain or other related symptoms as well.

So it would be a very uncomfortable time for people.

-You're very welcome.

-Thank you very much.

-You're flying solo tonight?

I am, yeah.

-Have to slog it out here in the studio.

-I'm sure you'll manage.

And you went over to South By South West,

to Austin, Texas, recently, as well.

How was that for you, and for an up-and-coming group?

Is it really important to have presence at such festivals?

Yeah, I think so.

Usually traditionally you'd go out there and do seven or eight,

as many as possible, but because it was such a good offer,

just to go and do it, we couldn't turn it down.

Hopefully next year we'll get to go out.

I've got an idea of the place now.

Not only gigging,

a lot of networking happens at those festivals

and you have to take those opportunities as they come.

Yeah, of course.

I did as much as I could and my manager was out there as well,

so he was working away while I was having a beer in the corner,

-just making sure.

-Poor old manager!

You have a great online presence as a band.

Sister Snow, from an EP released in 2014,

has 1.5 million hits on Spotify.

How does that translate into the everyday life of a working band?

Yeah, well, we're still working! It doesn't provide us with that.

But what it does is it gives us some exposure

that we would never have had before.

People would ask me a lot about Spotify,

but I have only positive things to say about it,

because when you're seeing people in Tunisia and the States

and all across the world listening to music that they would

never have been able to access otherwise, so completely positive.

With your release of your new EP, Luna,

you uploaded it to the BBC Uploader and that had great results for you.

Yeah, Annie Mac played it a couple of times on her show.

That's on BBC Radio 1.

So that's kind of, for a band in our position, that's the goal.

So we're delighted that she's played it

and hopefully it will give it a bit more exposure.

So you're gradually building,

gradually gathering a lot of moss as a band.

So does that mean, is there a move imminent from Armagh to London,

to Dublin, or does world domination,

is it going to come from... electronically from Armagh?

Absolutely! I think we're going to try and get people over here.

No, I think it used to be that you had to move

and you had to be in the centre of everything.

But now, just through social media and through, you know...

We can do as well here as we can do in London.

So if the time comes and we're playing that amount of gigs

and we're doing so much stuff, we might move,

but at the minute, we're quite content.

Big things ahead for sure.

Conchur, thanks so much for joining us this evening.

# Tell me, can I go?

# I've done my work, I'm getting slow

# I'm killing time, it's getting old

# I wanna go, I wanna go

# Darling, I've been cold

# Carve me open, love

# And show me

# All the things you want

# Cos I'm going

# Ba-dum

# Ba-da-dum

# Da-dum

# Da-dum-dum

# And follow the scarlet skies

# The bubble gum a curious sight

# I would know if I had tried

# Forgot the things I could have been

# And darling, I've been cold

# Carve me open, love

# And show me

# All the things you want

# Cos I'm going

# Ba-ah

# Ba ba-dah

# Da-ah

# Ba ba-dah

# And, darling, I've been cold

# Carve me open, love

# And show me

# All the things you want

# Cos I'm going

# Carve me open, love

# And show me

# All the things you want

# Cos I'm going

# I'm going. #

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