Cape Clear storytelling festival moves online for this weekend's event 

Founded in the early 1990s by a visiting American, the event is now ranked among the world's top storytelling events 

Diarmuid O'Drisceoil during a previous Cape Clear  International Story Telling Festival. Picture: Clare Keogh

The ferries filled to capacity, every bed taken, restaurant and pubs busy all day – it won’t be like that this weekend on Cape Clear.

The island’s international storytelling festival, held annually during the first weekend of September since 1994, is going virtual due to Covid-19.