You're welcome John.
Mick O'Connor is gong to do an appreciation for the ITMA website and probably something will end up in the Piobaire in time as well.
As it happens I am working on some galleries for the ITMA site, the first one is up but going live in the next couple of days. Last week I had set aside one of the images of Michael for the second gallery and was thinking of him. The next day the news arrived. I hadn't seen him since the lockdowns started but he was increasingly frail the last few times I talked to him.
Anyhow, here is another image, with Michael J. Sexton, two of the old Miltown pipers.
There was some footage in the opening sequence of some series of 'Come west along the road/Siar an Bothar' of the Laichtin Naofa playing at the fleadh in Kilrush, Michael was in that with the pipes , with Junior, Mchael Downes, Paddy Galvin and the rest of them. I have some images taken in Gleeson's during the nineties, where they, Junior, Michael Downes on the stage, Michael Falsey with the pipes seated on the edge of it, are seated in almost exactly the same way as the old footage.
He was also part of the band in the welknown photos of the Laichtin Naofa, here sitting beside JC Talty on the front row, second from the right:
but he was at times also part of the Quilty Ceiliband, the Tulla and the Kilfenora as well as other groups.
I'll add an image I scanned ages ago for a neighbour, unfortunately I didn't have a high res scanner at that time. The photo was taken outside JC Talty's house in Caherrush, JC and Michael playing flute and pipes respectively.
![Image](https://i.postimg.cc/CMGgjWh6/JC-Michael-Falsey.jpg)