... Top prize winners in the four grades at Moira last Saturday with top officials. From left : PM Frank Andrews (McNeillstown), PM Richard Newell (Frank Rainey Memorial), PM Tom Wray (Faughan Valley), Eddie McVeigh (president), Jim Major (chairman), Fred ...

... Left -McNeillstown Pipe Major Frank Andrews, who took his band into third spot at Banbridge. The Portglenone-based outfit will compete tomorrow at Enniskillen Right - into the arena, the pipes and drums of the RUC, competing in Scotland tomorrow ...

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... previous eras. Under Frank Andrew’s leadership, the proud wearers of the Red McLean weave became not-only a top eompetition outfit, but also something of an institution. Led by perhaps the most laid-back pipe major in the business, Frank Andrews and his ensemble ...

... FAMILY ATMOSPHERE From the outset, Pipe Major Frank Andrews sought to instill a ‘family’ atmosphere and tradition into the ranks, not only by the inclusion of most of his own ‘kith and kin', but also amongst the other band members, many of whom down the ...

... Band has considerably strengthened their ‘front end’ with the enlistment of a couple of very capable pipers. Pipe Major Frank Andrews should be delighted with his recent acquisitions, namely Derek Magee, the former boss of Tullintrain, and teenager Colin ...

... few years back, could well become another big hit - and possibly a theme song - with McNeillstown Pipe Band. Pipe Major Frank Andrews and his ‘crew’ will, in fact, be sailing off this evening to compete in the first of the '93 mainland ‘majors’ - the European ...

... FUTURE Although stepping down from his position as leading drummer with the locally-based Frank Andrews band, Billy Barham will not, however, be taking his leave of an area renowned for its interest and contribution to the pipe band culture. As an employee ...

... Band can be heard in “Reel to Reel” on Radio Ulster at 1.30 pm on Monday, December 1. Joe McKee introduces Pipe Major Frank Andrews of the McNeillstown Pipe Band from near Portglenone, and talks to Derek Greer about the centenary of Ballymena’s oldest ...

... had permeated the ranks of those bands playing in the higher echelon - that of Grade 1 - and on the invitation of big Frank Andrews, ‘Wee Davy’ joined the band frae Maboy . . . McNeillstown. It was during the ...

... Tullymore House Hotel last Friday evening. The occasion was the annual dinner of the McNeillstown Pipe Band, and its leader, Frank Andrews had joined upwards of 100 of his collecagues, patrons and friends of the Portglenone-based ensemble in one of the hotel's ...

... MOVEMENT There wasn’t a lot of movement during the teenage ‘apprenticeship’ of Frank Andrews with the band, but he received a severe jolt at around the age of 19 when, in 1969, he was literally ‘thrown in at the deep end’, and asked to take over the pipe ...