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"Dá mba rud é go raibh feachtas infheistíochta déanta acu seo i dtaifead ceol Gaeilge de gach cineál, samhlaigh an rogha amhrán agus ceol a bheadh ag chuile láithreoir nó eagarthóir clár faisnéise."

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