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A GROUP of transition-year stu- dents from the CBS in Ennistymon will represent Clare in the National Mini-Company of the Year competi- tion after winning the county title in SHWE NIM (oe) @
The group, who put together a DVD of scenic scenes from north Clare entitled Iomhanna an Chlair, saw off some competition to take the Clare County Council Enterprise Board Student Enterprise 2008.
“The project is a DVD of still photographs from the north Clare region. The images are set to tradi- tional music and divided into differ- ent sections for the different areas or the county,” said Stephen Conway from Ennistymon.
Each member of the group took a number of photographs representing some of the nicest scenes from their own area.
‘Most of us are from different areas from around north Clare. We had two from Corofin, two from Lahinch one from Ennistymon and one from Lis- doonvarna. So we had a fairly wide knowledge of the area. And then we got the tourist attractions as well like the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren. Each of us took the pictures from our own area,” said Cathal Malone from Bybee
The best pictures were then select- ed and compiled into a DVD.
“We do photography in school so we have a good idea of how to get into it. It was tough enough but we had digital cameras so the quality
was very good. Putting it onto DVD was probably the hardest bit of it,” said Joe Queally of Ennistymon.
To add that extra touch, two of the students composed a number of trad tunes to act as a backdrop for the im- ages. “We are all from around differ- ent parts of the county so we knew a lot of the nice places which would make good pictures. Keith had a spe- GEV B Te CooKe BOOM BE-LONIBCO)IT-T BONE CemNORYYo decided that we wanted to take the photographs and use the musicals tal- ents that we had as well,’ said Declan O’ Loughlin from Lisdoonvarna.
“Declan did one track and I did five others. The first time we tried record- ing them, the quality was fairly bad SO we gave it a second go and that was much better. The music was all original and we played the whole lot
ourselves,’ said Keith O’Loughlin from Corofin.
The group will now do on to repre- sent Clare in the National Finals in Tullamore on May 8, but in the mean time they hope to keep sales kicking over.
“We got it into places like the Falls Hotel where a lot of tourists go. We sold it a good bit around Ennisty- mon and we are hoping to get it into the Cliffs for the start of the tourist season,’ said William Nealon from Sorcery