Fermoy's Palace Players are top amateur drama group

A Fermoy company has been crowned the country’s top amateur drama group at the 63rd RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival.

The Palace Players were top of the pile out of nine productions to make this year’s final which ran over the past two weeks in Athlone.

The north Cork group’s performance of Tom Murphy’s Conversations on a Homecoming last Thursday was described by adjudicator Walker Ewart as a memorable evening of theatre.