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February 25, Views. The inaugural event brings the station together with the long-established Clare Drama Festival to ensure that actors and their audiences get to enjoy the finest local theatrical productions in their own homes. With the cancellation this year of the circuit and all the festivals, both SBCR and the Clare Drama Festival decided to work together to give the drama groups of Ireland an outlet for their craft. In doing so their audiences would also have an opportunity to experience a festival in a different way, over the airwaves.

This year's All-Ireland Drama Festival has been cancelled for the first time in its year history, due to the foot-and-mouth crisis. The festival, which was due to be held in Athlone at the end of April, is organised by the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland. People would have been travelling from all the 32 counties to the festival and it had been decided that cancellation "would be the proper thing to do," said Mr Kelly, who is also director of the Athlone festival.

We would like to extend a warm welcome our adjudicator Anna Walker and all of the travelling drama groups who will qualify through the One Act Drama Circuit. We hope you all have a pleasant and memorable stay with us here in this part of West Cork. I was founded in and has coordinated the running of preliminary drama festivals and All Ireland festivals ever since. The principal objects of the Council are to foster, develop, promote and encourage amateur drama in Ireland and to organise annually All Ireland Drama Festivals. The Drama League of Ireland aims to support, nurture and enhance the aspirations and activities of practitioners in the amateur theatre sector through education, training, advocacy and advisory services.