Owen Sweeney
speaker
248 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Owen Sweeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, he's a descendant of slave owners, effectively.
He has inherited from his father a lot of money, 80 million or 50 million.
I've already forgotten how much it is.
It's not the point.
There's a challenge against it by a local Jamaican man who, maybe I'm giving something away, turns out to be 200 and something years old or so he claims.
If you know a little bit, if you spend a lot of time, Bob Marley, reading about that kind of part of the world, Obia or Obia is the local kind of West African juju magic stuff.
So this falls somewhere between Sinners and Live and Let Die.
It's a little kind of ropey in parts and it's a little kind of intriguing in parts.
I haven't quite bought into it.
No, it's not Death in Paradise.
racking it, no, no.
Yes, this is a nice little film from David Heffernan, who had a personal relationship with Nancy Griffin, that she was the godmother to his youngest child, who features in it.
As does another of her godchildren.
She didn't have any children of her own.
She was, I suppose the cliche is unlucky in love.
She was obviously a singular talent from Texas.
She took off big time in Ireland, I suppose.
It was an interesting time to be a female musician in Ireland as well, because it was a time of a woman's heart.
It was a time of...
You know, we had Mary Black coming through.
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