Sunny days for Dingle animation as native son John Rice returns with festival

After working with some of the top companies in the US, Kerry animator John Rice was happy to set up a festival in his native county, writes Esther McCarthy.

IT was the kind of bad luck that might have seen a less passionate young animator come unstuck. On the first day of his first job with a top animation studio, a young John Rice arrived to work — only to find the company was closing.