Heros Guitar School was established in 2010 by Paul O'Donoghue who has been a resident of Shannon since 1972.  Paul comes from a well known Co Clare musical family. His father being Paddy O'Donoghue, flute/fiddle player and founder member of the Tulla Céilí Band.
Paul has been playing guitar for most of his life and arranging music locally for both primary and secondary level students in Shannon.

During the summer of 2007 Paul became involved as a volounteer 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 has proven so successful that it is now run every summer in Shannon and the take up is always high as there is no charge on the student.

"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. "

In 2009 he took a business management course with Griffith College Limerick and after receiving a HETAC in business Management then established Heros Guitar School in 2010. The service offers one to one based guitar tuition allowing the student / client to take tuition from the comfort of their own home. As the slogan says:
                                     "Just like a grind, but louder"