PEOPLE OF GALWAY; THIS IS TROY

We’re having the chats with #PeopleofGalway for the craic — messers and chancers, artists and tourists, buskers and shopkeepers, and any other unwitting victims we meet on the street.

#ThisIsGalway “I used to work on corporate flights in the US and, I mean, we got to fly some amazing guests. Like Oprah Winfrey. I’m in a magazine with Oprah Winfrey. It’s funny, because it says: ‘Talk show host extraordinaire Oprah Winfrey with Troy Gottfredson’. I still have the magazine – it’s the only copy left from, like, 1992. We also had a flight from L.A. to pick up ‘seven souls’ – because of security they don’t let those souls’ identities leak until we’re in the air – and I remember that the guests’ requests were fairly simple. Because sometimes they want, like, hand-rolled scones with special raisins from, fuckin’ I-don’t-know-where, but this time it was just mixed nuts and Perrier water. Seven souls ended up being Mother Teresa and her entourage.”

– Troy

Photo by Ciarán MacChoncarraige