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WITH festival season at its peak last weekend in west Clare as Cooraclare, Kilmihil and Kildysart were provid- ing family fun despite the weather, this week sees other festivals com- mittees stepping up a gear for final preparations while others are con- sidering the success of this year’s endeavour.
One of the first west Clare festivals of the summer season was the Pea- dar Clancy Festival. Organisers of this year’s festival, one of the most successful to date, were busy pub-
lishing the final results of the many competitions of the weekend.
The colourful parade showed great enthusiasm and effort by the commu- nity, but there was one that stood out and declared overall winner – “The Dunlock Bay Drug Seizure’.
Coolmeen National School were kings of the sea as they won the chil- dren’s section for “Pirates of the Car- ibbean”. The “Spice Girls” made up of the Normoyle family and friends were awarded for “best effort” while PJ Kelly’s “the Allis Chalmers” won most cultural.
Mike Murphy and friends were
awarded for their “Prison Break” as it was acclaimed the most humorous, with the “Dunlock Bay Drug Sei- Zure’ also winning most topical.
Brendan Price – Moyrala – made it into the “Hall of Fame”.
One parade however did not a fes- tival make.
“Thomas Coffey’s Team won the under-14 fun blitz, with team Clond- rina winning the senior competition. The sports day saw everyone from waddling toddlers to human wheel- barrows winning prizes.
There were crawling races, egg and spoons races for under-13s and un-
der-8s, three-legged races, married men and married women races. There were three bonny baby com- petitions and other field events in- cluding finding the most glamorous granny in the area – Sile Pass. Among the more gruesome of the competitions was the “Bush Tucker Trials” which saw Mike Murphy and Rory Quinn tucking in for success. “The committee would like to thank everybody who helped to make the weekend such a success, especially all the volunteers who worked very hard at the various events,’ a spokes- person for the committee said.