Tina O’Sullivan previews a series of exhibitions in the Crawford and other venues to mark 60 years of the Arts Council

TRALEE, whose future is very much in doubt anyway, didn’t have the best of starts to its five-day Festival yesterday, when the meeting was the subject of a bomb scare.

With testing ground and a bomb scare, day one of the Tralee Festival got off to a lively start and it was Forthright who claimed the feature Brandon Hotel Handicap Hurdle.