Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair from Ardara won Corn Bhab Feiritéir, the first prize in the Storytelling Qualifying competition, at the Oireachtas Festival in Kerry.
The annual Oireachtas Festival is a mecca for lovers and performers of the traditional arts and this year’s competitions again received a huge number of entrants aged from 6 years to 68.
The range of competitions included storytelling, sean-nós dancing and singing, and the famous Lúibíní competition in which two people perform a rhyming story through song.
The highlights of this years festival included the newly composed piece by Peadar Ó Riada, entitled I gCuimhne Laochra (Remembering Heroes), that was commissioned by An tOireachtas as part of their 1916 commemorations.
Donegal was well represented this year as Clíodhna Ní Ghallachóir, from Gortahork, a student at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair, won the first prize in the 15-18 Public Speaking competition, and Conor Ó Gallachóir, from Gortahork, got 2nd place in the 15-18 Seán-Nós Singing competition and went on to take the 2nd prize in the 15-18 Public Speaking competition, along with Ranafast brothers Hugh Anthony and Joseph Mac Suibhne who claimed first place in all-Ireland storytelling.
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