Group defies icy snap to stage John B’s Hiker

ONE of John B Keane’s most popular plays, The Year of the Hiker, will be staged by Sliabh Luachra Drama Group on the coming weekends.

The venue will be the Heritage Centre, in Scartaglin, Co Kerry, only a few miles as the crow flies from the Stack’s Mountains where Keane spent many childhood days with relatives.

The Scartaglin area was severely hit by the recent snow and frost, but the group managed to get in the necessary rehearsals that should ensure a highly entertaining opening performance tomorrow night.