Last updated: May 27, 2021, 14:19 Cónal Creedonâs play âWhen I was Godâ has won a number of awards both in Ireland and abroad.
Creedonâs play is well onside!
âItâs always a mighty feeling when a Cork team travels to Clare and brings home the silverware!â
The words of Leeside playwright Cónal Creedon whose play âWhen I was Godâ recently swept the boards at the inaugural Clare Drama Radio Play festival awards.
Directed by Denis OâSullivan and starring Brian McCarthy and Donie Walsh, the play took home the top prize of Best Production as well as bagging Best Director and Best Actor.
Festival organiser in RTÉ tribute to amateur drama
May 20, 2021
CLARE Drama Festival stalwart Tom Hanley is among 15 actors and organisers chosen by RTÉ to feature in a special short film to celebrate Ireland’s vibrant amateur drama circuit. While May is, ordinarily, the month when the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival takes place in Athlone, the Dean Crowe Theatre will lie empty for a second year in a row due to pandemic restrictions. In existence since the early 1950s, the festival has been deferred to 2022. However, actors from a range of the regional festival locations, including Clare, have come together to mark what should have been the 69th RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival.
A general view of the old Astor Cinema building in Scariff. Photograph by John Kelly.
Scariff sets out vision to transform its old cinema
April 29, 2021
Community shares ideas to make ‘heart of town beat again’ with help of state redevelopment fund
AN EXPLORATORY meeting on the possible regeneration of the old Astor Cinema building in Scariff heard hopes that “the heart of the town may soon beat again”.
The Zoom gathering was convened last Saturday night by community activist Eoin O’Hagan, who is former Chair of East Clare Tourism.
Mr O’Hagan is the driving force behind a bid to make a large-scale application to the Department of Rural and Community Development.
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The Inaugural Clare Drama Radio Play Festival will begin on Scariff Bay Community Radio (SBCR) this Saturday 27th February with a special festival programme hosted by Eoin O’Hagan at 8pm.
The event will continue on Saturdays, and Sundays, presented by Festival PRO Tom Hanley, until the final night on Easter Sunday April 4th. SBCR has joined forces with CDF who are one of Ireland’s longest running amateur drama festivals having started in 1946.
The Clare Drama Radio Play Festival is a perfect addition to the schedule of SBCR and an antidote to the continuing lockdown for both the listeners to the local station as well as the devotees of amateur drama throughout Ireland. This brand new drama festival is going to be a feast of drama for those starved of it because of Covid 19.