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Front, left to right: Clare Kearney, Abbie Sullivan..Back, left to right: Mikhaila Fitzpatrick, Katie Laws.....Clare Kearney, Corofin, bottom left, and Mikhaila Fitzpatrick, Ruan, top left, winners of the new Flannery-Fitzgerald cup for Dramatic Duologue u-15 at Feile Luimni. This new perpetual cup was presented to Feile Luimni for the first time this year by speech & drama teacher Eileen Fitzgerald, to reflect the growing interest and high standard of this popular competition... 14 year old Abbie Sullivan, Ivy Hill, bottom right, was the winner of the prestigious Bishop O Dwyer cup for poetry recital u15. For this competition, Abbie had to present a programme based on the works of Irish poet W.B. Yeats... Both the Diarmuid cup and Tadgh O Ceallaigh cup for group improvisation were won by Katie Laws, Barefield, top right. Clare Kearney and Orla Fitzgerald, Ballybeg (missing from photo)... Clare was also placed first in public speaking and Mikhaila was first in poetry sight reading. As a result of their successes in various competitions, both Orla Fitzgerald and Mikhaila Fitzpatrick have been nominated for the Nancy Wallace Bursary which takes place in early March... The girls are all students of the Eileen Fitzgerald School of Speech & Drama, Ennis. Photrograph by John Kelly... .. ....
