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COROFIN is celebrating today following an historic victory at the All Ireland One Act Play Finals which took place in Glór over the weekend. The Corofin Drama Society has emerged as one of Ireland’s foremost amateur dramatics group over the last decade – with this victory coming hot on the hells of the Three Act National Championship in 2008 and the first success in the one act play finals in 1993.
Sunday’s victory was the first time that any Clare drama group has ever picked up a national title on home soil – something which made the victory even sweeter for director Eileen Lahiff.
“I am delighted with the victory, absolutely thrilled. When we started this show, one of our main aims was to do our best to reach the All Ireland final. We knew that it was going to be in Ennis this year and we all said that it would be fantastic to take part in the All Ireland final in Glór,” said Eileen.
“I am so pleased with all of the actors who took part in the show – they did absolutely brilliantly and did a great job for us.”
The winning show was a comedy called ‘What’s For Pudding’ and featured Sandra Cox as Mary, Peter Daffy as Jack, Kevin Glynn as Ted, Maria McCahill as Maureen and Pat O’Reilly as Denis. The show is also one of the first comedies to win the All Ireland Final in the last number of years. “It is very difficult to do a fast paced comedy and to do it right. Timing is absolutely everything and everything needs to be done exactly right every night to make the show work prop- erly,” continued Eileen.