Killarney

By Sean Moriarty
<h3>The Rathmore Panto Group has decided to delay its annual post-Christmas event because its members cannot meet to rehearse.</h3>
The Rathmore Panto usually runs on the third or fourth week of January.
 &ldquo;Usually, just before Christmas, we are half or three-quarters ready, just to add the finishing touches,&rdquo; Val Moynihan, chairman of Marian Players Rathmore Panto Group, told the Killarney Advertiser.
 &ldquo;We have an awful lot of family members in our group and it is not worth taking the risk. We are about two months behind schedule.&rdquo;
 The much-loved event was unable to go ahead earlier this year either as the country entered its first post-Christmas lockdown. The last time the Marian Players ran a Panto was in January 2020, before COVID-19 was part of everyday life.
 On that occasion they performed their own version of &#8216;Rapunzel&#8217;.
 &ldquo;We could be looking at the end of March or April before we can run anything,&rdquo; Val added. &ldquo;We will have to move away from a traditional Christmas show and look at a spring or summer theme.&rdquo;

Rathmore Christmas Panto deferred until spring

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