Huge thanks to Malcolm Byrne TD who continues to advocate for supports for amateur theatre and musicals. It’s great to see progress being made on a funding scheme to include these art forms.
Thank you to our President, Liam Hannaway, who represented us at the Oireachtas Arts Committee meeting this week. 🎭
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🎥 The Awards Night for this year's ADCI All Ireland Confined Drama Finals will be streamed tomorrow evening (Saturday 18th April) live on Youtube.
www.youtube.com/live/ZSogq1ig2gc?si=vhVelIfWihLf-HU5
Streaming will begin from 7.45pm.
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🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Memory Lane Theatre in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Glenamaddy Players in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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Or even 2.
Best of luck Glenamaddy Players break a leg 🎭🎭
Best of broken legs Coman Keaveny and all in Glenamaddy Players ✨🎭💯
🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Bualadh Bos Oranmore in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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Best wishes to you all. ✨️🤩 🎭✨️🤩🎭✨️🤩🎭✨️🤩🎭✨️🤩🎭
🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Clones Drama Group in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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Good luck from Ballyshannon Drama Festival
🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Gorey Little Theatre in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Enniskillen Drama Festival in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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Break legs Enniskillen Theatre Company from all at Newtownstewart Theatre Company & NTS Drama Festival 🎭🎭
Best wishes and broken legs Enniskillen Theatre Company Ena Trimble 🎭🎭
🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Tinahely Variety Group in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Sliabh Aughty Drama Group in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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Break a leg tonight Noel, cast and crew. Shane Kelly Ger Condren representing Co. Clare 💛💙🎭🎭
best wishes to cast crew Director Liam come on the Banner
Best of luck to cast and crew tonight.
🎭 Break a leg to the cast and crew of Upstage Players in the All-Ireland Confined Finals from the ADCI. 🎭
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Thanks Amateur Drama Council of Ireland. Almost ready to go here!
🎭 All Ireland Drama season kicks off today!
The ADCI All-Ireland Confined Drama Finals 2026 open tonight in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, hosted by the Mid Ulster Drama Festival. Wishing Patricia Nugent, James Warnock and all of the Mid-Ulster team every success for a wonderful festival of drama, creativity and community.
Nine dedicated and award-winning drama groups from across the country are ready to take to the All-Ireland stage. Congratulations to each of the qualifying groups and best wishes for a fantastic performance in The Patrician.
We extend our very best wishes to adjudicator Martin Maguire, who takes on the exciting challenge of selecting this year’s winners.
Break a leg to all involved! 🎭
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Break legs and enjoy .Good luck Mid Ulster Drama Festival in hosting this year 🎭🎭
Best wishes again Mid Ulster Drama Festival ✨️🤩🎭
Break a leg one and all!! Savour your moment!
The draw for the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival took place in Athlone on Monday, bringing together festival, ADCI and group representatives for an important milestone in the journey to the finals.
Read more about the the draw here:
www.westmeathindependent.ie/2026/04/07/draw-held-for-rte-all-ireland-drama-festival/
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🚨GENERAL SALE INFORMATION🚨
Now that we have the running order for our 2026 RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival Finalists, nightly tickets will go on general sale TOMORROW, Wednesday 8th April at 10:30, via the Dean Crowe Theatre online or by phone.
Please note, all ticket enquiries are be made via the Theatre and we ask that you have patience with the Theatre at this time as tickets will be in high demand.
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The draw is complete for the 2026 RTÉ Open All Ireland Drama Finals hosted by the All Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone.
Best of luck to the team in Athlone and the nine qualifying groups with their All-Ireland preparations.
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All eyes are on Athlone today for the draw for the line up of the 2026 All Ireland Open Finals.
Best wishes to the team in Athlone as they kick off the final countdown to the 2026 RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival.
Wishing a safe journey to all of the qualifying groups heading for Athlone today.
Keep an eye for further updates this afternoon.
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Good luck to Corofin especially to my friend Rona Lyons xx
Congratulations 👏🎉 to all groups taking bart in the finals best of luck to Team Wit from CDS Up the Banner
thanks Audrey yes we are in the All ireland again how is Noel and the family’s
On behalf of everyone in the ADCI, we extend heartfelt condolences to our Vice-Chair, Mary Torsney, on the loss of her beloved father, Sean.
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Deepest sympathy to Mary and family on the loss of your beloved father.
Deepest sympathy to Mary and the Torsney family at this time of great loss.
Our sincere sympathies to Mary and the Torsney family on the sad passing of Sean. May he RIP
The draw is complete for the 2026 ADCI All Ireland Confined Drama Finals hosted by Mid Ulster Drama Festival.
Best wishes to Mid-Ulster and the nine qualifying groups with their All-Ireland preparations.
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The Outgoing Tide is a wonderful play, I have such great memories of playing Peg in a production in the Everyman Theatre over 10 years ago now, opposite the late lamented Michael Twomey, and the excellent Ian McGurk. ❤️🎭
Brilliant lineup. Have seen 3 of these in Ballyshannon. All excellent.
Lovely to have all the groups from different parts of Ireland in Carrickmore today. Shaping up to be a fantastic festival. #Fáilte
After a nail-biting finish to the ADCI Full-Length Festival Circuit last night, it's all systems go again today!
The draw for the line up of the 2026 ADCI All Ireland Confined Drama Finals takes place this afternoon in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone.
Best wishes to @Mid Ulster Drama Festival as they continue preparations for hosting the Confined All Ireland Finals which kick off on Thursday 9th April.
Safe travelling to all of the representatives of the qualifying groups.
Keep an eye for further updates later today.
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Congratulations Bualadh Bos
I think we might have broken the internet last night in Clones - congrats to the qualifiers and genuine commiserations to those who didn't get over the line.
Upstage Players yahoo
The ADCI is delighted to officially announce the qualifying groups for the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone.
Huge congratulations to all of the qualifying groups and also to every group that participated on the 2026 Amateur Drama Council of Ireland Festival Circuit which culminated in a nail-biting finish!
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Congratulations 🥳 to all the groups who qualified . Amazing to have 4 Wexford 💜💛 groups in Athlone . Wexford is the beating heart 💗 of amateur drama 🎭 in Ireland . So competitive even to get out of our own county never mind reach Athlone for the RTE All Ireland Drama Festival
The purple and gold flying high
Congratulations 👏👏👏 4 Wexford finalists. Amazing!
The ADCI is delighted to officially announce the qualifying groups for the ADCI All Ireland Confined Drama Finals hosted by Mid Ulster Drama Festival.
Huge congratulations to all of the qualifying groups and also to every group that participated on the 2026 Amateur Drama Council of Ireland Festival Circuit providing an excellent standard of theatre for audiences across the country. The draw takes place in Carrickmore tomorrow for the All-Ireland line-up.
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Congratulations to all the finalists Looking forward to a great Confined finals in Carrickmore A special congratulations to Enniskillen, Clones and Bualadh Bos who were part of the 74th. Ballyshannon Drama Festival
Congrats to Memory Lane on getting to the Final..well deserved Best of luck from all in the Kingdom.
Congratulations Clines and Best of Luck