Castlelyons Gospel Choir began its life in October 2006 from the brainchild of Jack O’ Leary who was studying Music in UL at the time. The Choir began to rehearse under the direction of Christopher Hennessey on Wednesday nights and subsequently Eoin Bermingham took over as Conductor/Accompanist.

A new Musical Director was sought over the summer of 2008 and Lisa Dunphy began working with the choir the following September. Lisa soon established a Choir Band and a serious drive to recruit new members began to build up the choir from about 14 members.
A Committee was also formed at this stage to organise events and look after finances etc. Philip Dunphy Jnr. Joined the Gospel band as a bass player at this stageTowards the end of the summer of 2008 we began to rehearse for a concert with Liam Lawton which was taking place locally in Castlelyons, a lot of hard work and commitment was involved from Choir members, band and Director. Liam Lawton was so impressed that he invited the Choir to sing with him in his home parish of Ballymacoda at Christmas time.The Choir continued to grow from strength to strength and in April ’09 a new keyboard player by the name of Aoife O’ Donovan from Cork joined us. Our Drummer, Seamus Duggan completed the Band.
C.G.C. has taken part in a number of concerts and gigs throughout those years many in a fundraising capacity for various charities and local organisations. We have several enquiries to sing at Weddings in the future, this is a new venture but we are confident it is one we can do well.