Jenny is perfect as panto pirate

SHE may be playing a dead pirate but her special talents have helped breathe life into a swashbuckling Christmas pantomime.

Jenny O’Halloran, 16, from Douglas in Cork, is one of six actors with special needs who have been cast in the chorus of this year’s Everyman Palace Theatre pantomime, Sinbad and The Sea Pirates, which opens in Cork next week.

Show director Catherine Mahon-Buckley, who runs the CADA Performing Arts Academy, said Jenny and her friends bring a very special energy and creativity to the stage.