Search
06 Sept 2025
Search
06 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
A scene from Billy Boy
A firey play about building bonfires in Belfast is coming to The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton this Saturday, April 15 at 8pm.
Billy Boy, by East Belfast writer Rosemary Jenkinson, is inspired by interviews with young bonfire builders.
It looked at the contentious Twelfth, the bonfires or 'bonies' which take over Belfast every summer and the world of the young guys fired-up atop the pallets (and tyres).
The great set and gleaming orange lights signal the Loyalist fiefdom.
Performed by the amazing John Travers, Aaron is looking after the biggest and most controversial boney in the East and is determined to fight the council’s ruling.
The problem is, if he gets into any more trouble, he might have to pack his bags.
Think you know this story? Come along and find out what you’re missing.
After a successful run at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, Billy Boy is coming to Manorhamilton!
Framed by real historical events and based on interviews with some of the bonfire builders themselves Billy Boy charts the progress of both the fire and of Aaron’s prospects in a community fighting to be heard.
This is a one hour one man show.
Open your mind to a story we know oh so well from the news but not from the inside.
Tickets are €15 on www.theglenscentre.com or call (071) 9855833.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
