culture. Coláiste Chonnacht and Coláiste Lurgan are two local Irish language schools. The music group The Waterboys recorded part of their Fisherman's Blues album in Spiddal. They also recorded a song called Spring Comes to Spiddal on their album Room to Roam. The television series Ros na Rún is filmed there, and broadcast on TG4. The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is Cumann Lúthchleas Gael An Spidéal, with Gaelic football and hurling being the most popular sports. There is also a sailing club in the village. Notable people Mary Bergin, musician Ronan Browne, musician Thom McGinty, actor and stillness artist Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, journalist, author, sports official and the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee Máirtín Ó Cadhain, a post-Civil War Irish republican, writer of modern literature in Irish, and author of the comic and modernist work Cré na Cille. Dónall Ó Héalai, actor Seán Ó Neachtain, former Member of the European Parliament and Fianna Fáil politician Eimear Ní Chonaola Nuacht TG4 anchor Gráinne Seoige, television presenter Síle Seoige, television presenter Máirtín Thornton (died 1984), Irish heavyweight boxer in the 1940s Máire Ní Thuathail (1959-2019), television producer. See also List of towns and villages in Ireland References Towns and villages in County Galway Gaeltacht places in County Galway Beaches of County Galway Gaeltacht towns and villages Articles on towns and villages in Ireland possibly missing Irish place names