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Athlone playwright, Margaret McKenna Mullan, has written and produced seven plays which she has staged at different venues throughout the country.

Margaret Mc Kenna Mullan is back with her play All for the Love of Mammy, showing at Tuar Ard Arts Centre in Moate on Saturday, October 7, from 8pm.

Athlone Little Theatre celebrates its 80th year in existence with a production of Sean O’Casey’s tragicomedy, The Shadow of a Gunman, from December 3-9.

Athlone Little Theatre celebrates its 80th year in existence with a production of Sean O'Casey's classic tragicomedy, The Shadow of a Gunman, from December 3-9.

You know, I do not know how to begin or what to say to you at the start of my column this week. We all know the terrible heartbreak of the story of the five people in Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan. Yet every time I read it or talk about it to anyone I find the tears coming into my eyes. It is so sad for every one of them - such a tragic horror story.

Hearing a story on the Gay Byrne radio show some years ago about an adopted woman meeting her birth mother for the first time after 40 years prompted two actors, Bairbre Ní Chaoimh and Yvonne Quinn, into writing a play about separation, loss, and family secrets. They called the play Stolen Child.