Heros Guitar School established in 2010 by Shannon based guitarist Paul O'Donoghue, is a web based platform for his students to access lyric files for the purpose of learning Guitar. Coming from a well known Co Clare musical family, his father being Paddy O'Donoghue, flute/fiddle player and founder member of Ireland's most prestigious traditional music bands, The Tulla Céilí Band. Music is in the blood of this man then from an early age.
Originally from Ennis, Co, Clare but a resident of Shannon since 1972, Paul has been playing gigs locally in Shannon and Co, Clare for over three decades and also has been arranging music locally for both primary secondary level students and Church choirs since the early 90's.
During
the summer of 2007 Paul became involved as a volunteer at the Shannon Music Project, a Clare Youth Service program. His name was put forward to
teach guitar and 45 requests came back from students from both
primary and secondary school for the tuition. Over the coming months he put together a 15 hour tutorial
(1 hour per week) that ran from 2007 to 2011 under Paul's tuition. Handed the reigns over to his more advanced students to teach. the tuition is still offered today in 2015.&
After the closure of the US based manufacturing plant at Dell Computer Co, Limerick Ireland in 2009, for which Paul worked as a Commodity Manager, he took a business management course with Griffith College Limerick receiving a HETAC certificate in Business Management in 2010 giving him the platform to establish Ireland's first ''One to One'' home based guitar tuition service: Hero's Guitar School.
The service offers one to one based guitar tuition allowing the student / client to take tuition from the comfort of their own home backed with a video & lyric database.
"The idea of starting my own Guitar tuition school has really come about by requests from *clients/students for my service rather than my service requesting clients. but how could I turn down the chance to do something I love so much and get paid for it, the choice was easy''. As the slogan says:
Paul is a registered tutor with RGT
Hero's Guitar School was established with the assistance of both The Clare Enterprise board & The European Globalization Fund.