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The man behind the Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon, Barry O’Neill, has called on the Irish State to buy a Rory Gallagher which is up for auction in October for an estimated price of over 1 million euro, He says Gallagher is a huge part of Irish culture and music and such artefacts need to stay in Ireland