The Bachelors in Trouble are rocking and rolling again. Their brand new DVD, Fast Women and Slow Men, as well as a 10-track cd, will be launched at a gala night in Crotty’s of Leamybrien on Saturday 5 December.

“We spent a wicked long time thinking about a title for it and I think we have come up with a good one,” says Tony Coffey.

“The dafter it is, the more people like it. When we are at the National Ploughing each year, we often hear young chaps saying: ‘Are them the lads that make them quare videos?’

“We have a real cracker this time. We had great fun recording it and it should be fiercely popular as a Christmas present this year.

“As they might say in the movies, it was shot on location in County Waterford.”

The Bachelors in Trouble have been an institution in the southeast and Munster region since around 1989. Their first video was released in 1990 and was produced by Billy Kirwan. It was launched in Dungarvan and a capacity crowd packed the Park Hotel on the night.

Sean Murphy and Tony Coffey, together with Willie Walsh and some others, have entertained at venues all over the region for more than two and a half decades. They have also raised close on €200,000 for Kidney Dialysis, a cause close to their hearts.

Some members of Sean Murphy’s family featured on The Late Late Show earlier this year highlighting issues associated with kidney dialysis. The Bachelors’ fundraising efforts played a central role in securing a dialysis unit at Waterford Regional Hospital, which many people in the southeast can now avail of.

The new video runs for almost two hours and sees Tony (the man from Kilrossanty, who was crowned culchie of the year back in 1992) and Sean being joined by many of the regulars who have featured over the years. They include William Walsh, David Reynolds, Fr John Delaney (Kilrossanty), John Halpin, Liam Clancy, Mary Keating, Mary Fennell, Sadie Moynihan, and Mary Mulcahy, while young Michael Bray from Mellary makes his debut. It also features songs from Paddy O’Brien and Richie Kavanagh.

The Bachelors will be joined for the launch in Leamybrien by Paddy O’Brien and his band, Kevin Lynch and Country Roads, Mary Prendergast, Paddy Greenslade and Waterford GAA county board chairman Paddy Joe Ryan. The show starts at 9pm and the proceeds from the night are in support of the Irish Kidney Association. Admission is €12.50. Copies of Fast Women and Slow Men will be available in record stores from next week and can also be ordered direct from Tony on 087-9448828.

“Give us an auld ring and we’ll have them in the post in good time for Christmas. Santa has already been on to us looking for a big batch of them” says Tony. “Like ourselves, he has good taste.”