The link-up by Fran O’Gorman’s Sundrelle with beauty entrepreneurs, Marissa Carter and Suzanne Jackson has helped boost sales for the Co Meath businessman.

THERE should be laughs galore at the 55th North Cork Drama Festival, which opens at the Community Hall in Charleville tomorrow night and continues until March 31.

A POWERFUL production of Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans by Ballyduff Drama Group of west Waterford won the Bryan MacMahon Trophy, the top award in the open competition at the North Cork Drama Festival, now in its 54th year.

A TOWN’S love of the theatre rubbed off on John Ryan before he headed for New York nearly 50 years ago to pursue his dreams.