Declan O'Rourke Festival performance in Ireland in July 2007. Snow Patrol's lead singer, Gary Lightbody, gave a very positive review of O'Rourke's second album, a preview copy of which, he revealed, the band had been listening to backstage. O'Rourke attracted praise from Paul Weller for his song "Galileo (Someone Like You)" (co-written by Seamus Cotter) which he cited in an interview with Q Magazine as the song he most wished he'd written from the past twenty years; he later included O'Rourke's recording of the song on an album of his favourite songs included with a special edition of the magazine dedicated to
Robert Lightbody ludensis". He is also credited by Murchison for the detection of the remains of fishes and crustaceans in beds at a higher level than the original Ludlow bone-bed in the railroad cutting to the north-east of Ludlow. Lightbody published several articles based upon his geological research, including "The Geology of Ludlow", "Remarks on Mr Roberts' Paper on Cephalaspis", "Notice of a Section at Mocktree", "Passage Beds at Downton", and "A Sketch of Geological Time", Lightbody was involved in a legal dispute with one of his neighbours in 1868,<ref name="C16/357">Chancery Suit, 'Lightbody vs Hodges', held by The National Archives, "C16/357"</ref> in