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John Rafferty<\/strong> from Belfast was crowned TG4 ‘Gl\u00f3r T\u00edre’<\/strong> champion for 2019, live in The Quays in Galway last night.<\/p>\n

In a highly contested final, John Rafferty<\/strong> took the majority of the public votes to beat Damien Davis<\/strong> from Monaghan &\u00a0Noreen Rabbette<\/strong> from Offaly, to take the coveted title of\u00a0‘Gl\u00f3r T\u00edre’<\/strong> champion for 2019 and win the cash prize of \u20ac5000.<\/p>\n

John Rafferty<\/strong> was mentored by country star Johnny Brady.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking after winning,\u00a0John Rafferty<\/strong> said :<\/p>\n

“It means the absolute world to me. I’d like to thank TG4<\/strong> and the whole ‘Gl\u00f3r T\u00edre<\/strong>‘ team. Everyone has made us so welcome and everything was spot on. I’m still up on cloud nine at the minute so we’ll see how long it takes to come down again. But it’ll be a great road ahead I think. Fingers crossed!”<\/p>\n

‘Gl\u00f3r T\u00edre’,<\/strong> produced by Gaelmedia,<\/strong> was presented by Aoife Ni Thuairisg<\/strong> and S\u00e9amus \u00d3 Scanl\u00e1in<\/strong>, with help from the judges John Creedon<\/strong>, Caitr\u00edona N\u00ed Sh\u00failleabh\u00e1in<\/strong> and Jo N\u00ed Ch\u00e9ide<\/strong> who ably guided the contestants. The winner was decided by a public vote.<\/p>\n

After the announcement of the winner, judge John Creedon<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n

“If ever there was a year to win, this was the year to win because the bar was the highest yet. What we had was a humdinger of a contest.\u00a0 Brilliant. And the other two contestants were brilliant as well.”<\/p>\n

You can catch up with all of the action from this year’s ‘Gl\u00f3r T\u00edre’<\/strong> on the TG4 Player here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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