Rosslare Harbour

IRISH DANCING

Irish dancing classes under the tuition of Kay and Aileen Sutherland continue every Monday evening from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Kilrane-Rosslare Harbour Community Centre. New members are most welcome to join. For further information please contact Kay at 087 9035296 or contact us via our Facebook page ‘Tara School of Irish Dancing’.

BALLYCOGLEY PLAYERS

Have you booked your tickets for our pre-festival performances of this year’s drama circuit production, ‘Dreamland’ by Jim Nolan?

Our first performance will be in Our Lady’s Island Community Hall on Monday, February 10, at 8 p.m. Tickets €10 at the door. Then there will be performances in the National Opera House from February 14 to February 16, bookings online nationaloperahouse.ie or by calling the box office 053 9122144.

A flavour of the play: 1934, a rural pub in a village on the south coast of Ireland. Returned Yank, Johnny Kinnane has eight hours to salvage the rapidly decaying carcass of a 60 foot whale. General Eoin O’Duffy plans to attend the Blueshirt Dance in the Parish Hall while a 16-year-old would-be jockey dreams of victory in the Cemetery Sunday Races and a Jewish refugee with a clarinet and a clapped-out truck sets out to make a new life for himself and his daughter. An electricity generating bicycle, an open air jazz dance and a daring triumph of the imagination in a climate of communal hysteria – these are just some of the elements which combine to form this fantastic piece of theatre.

Under the brilliant direction of Breda Hayes, the hardworking cast are as follows: Johnny – Seán Carthy, Dinny – Will Troy Walsh, Teddy – Colm Doyle, Cassidy – Diarmuid Buttimer, Beate – Justine Murphy, Stefan – Chris Maddock, Doc – Shay Hannon and Grace – Trish Boyce.