Paul Conroy

Paul Conroy is an English music executive with a long and varied career of managing labels. He went from general manager of pioneering indie Stiff to senior positions with majors like Virgin Records, WEA and EMI.

Career

Conroy's introduction to the music business came as a college social secretary in the early 1970s. His first job was working as a booking agent for the Charisma Agency, where he worked with Nigel Kerr. Together they built the agency up into a major force on the burgeoning pub rock scene. In 1975 they collaborated with Jake Riviera to put on the Naughty Rhythms package tour, with pub rock stalwarts Kokomo, Dr. Feelgood, Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers. Conroy became the manager of The Kursaal Flyers, who got signed to Jonathan King's UK Records and had a hit with the song "Little Does She Know". In an idiosyncratic twist that presaged the common touch of many of his later promotional successes, Conroy had the band perform on Top of the Pops surrounded by laundry machines and giant detergent boxes.

Paul Conroy (Gaelic footballer)

Paul Conroy is a current Gaelic football player for the Galway senior football team. Conroy was captain of the All-Ireland winning Minor team in 2007 when they narrowly defeated Derry. Conroy made his Senior championship debut against Roscommon and scored finished the game with a tally of 0-6.

Conroy won an Galway Intermediate Club Championship with St. James' in 2010 and followed that up with a Connacht title.

He played twice for Ireland against Australia in the 2013 International Rules Series.

Conroy was named as Galway captain for the 2014 season.

Honours

  • Galway Intermediate Football Championship (1): 2010
  • Connacht Intermediate Club Football Championship (1): 2010
  • Connacht Minor Football Championship (1): 2007
  • All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (1): 2007
  • Connacht Senior Football Championship (1): 2008
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    Paul Conroy (disambiguation)

    Paul Conroy may refer to:

  • Paul Conroy, a UK music executive
  • Paul Conroy (Gaelic footballer), Gaelic footballer who plays for Galway
  • Paul Conroy (journalist), British press photographer working for The Sunday Times who was injured during the 2012 Siege of Homs
  • Paul Conroy (journalist)

    Paul Conroy (born 1964) is a British freelance photographer and filmmaker who works in the British media. A former soldier with the Royal Artillery between 1980 and 1987, he has since worked extensively as a journalist in combat zones, producing footage from conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Libya. In 2011, he was shortlisted for the PRX Bayeux TV report along with Marie Colvin, a war correspondent with The Sunday Times.

    On 22 February 2012 during the Syrian uprising, Conroy was injured while covering events from the Syrian city of Homs, a stronghold of Syrian opposition forces, after the building where he and other journalists were based was shelled by Syrian government forces. Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed in the attack, while Conroy was injured along with another journalist, French reporter Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro. Conroy suffered leg injuries in the attack and was subsequently smuggled out of the city and across the Syrian border to Lebanon.

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    Famous quotes by Paul Conroy:

    "The words impoverished, cluttered and arid come to my mind, ... The main roads were paved, but when you moved into the residential areas, the roads were just ruts in the sand."
    "The neighborhoods were littered with construction debris, and paper and plastic trash was strewn about, (not to mention the chickens, goats, donkeys, and cattle, which roam freely throughout),"
    "We departed Letlhakane with mixed emotions. Many of us felt with better time management we might have finished both houses, and for that we were somewhat sad,"
    "[Olie] said she had never thought it would be possible to own her own house,"
    "We had people show up as early as 12 o'clock that day, and we had a couple of guys who had driven seven hours."
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