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Shady cherry laurels render the water gloomy and unsuitable for spawning fish. Instead they have planted over one thousand native Irish trees, to provide the suitable dappled cover and woody debris that fish love.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly (aka School of Looking) interviewed LAWPRO officer Ruair\u00ed \u00d3 Conch\u00fair in May 2025 on site along the Ballymacraven River. A short film <\/span><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fish Live in Trees<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> resulted from this meeting.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">During Autumn 2025, the optimum time for tree planting, Cleary and Connolly are collaborating with local theatre maker Maeve Stone, marine biologist Rachel O&#8217;Malley, botanist Helena Brady and musicians Indeceltic to create a weekend of creative nature engagement events in Ennistymon, and along the banks of the Ballymacraven River, including riverside walks, macrophotography, sketching and creative writing as well as a musical performance and a screening of <\/span><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fish Live in Trees<\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For more information go to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schooloflooking.org\/CATCHMENTS\/Ballymacraven.html\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/www.schooloflooking.org\/CATCHMENTS\/Ballymacraven.html<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37150,"template":"","class_list":["post-37149","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Catchments 2025 \u2013 Fish Live In Trees - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Fish Live in Trees programme in Ennistymon in County Clare celebrates the renaissance of the Ballymacraven River through the herculean efforts of local people following the catastrophic fish kill that took place there in May 2023.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/catchments-2025-fish-live-in-trees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catchments 2025 \u2013 Fish Live In Trees - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Fish Live in Trees programme in Ennistymon in County Clare celebrates the renaissance of the Ballymacraven River through the herculean efforts of local people following the catastrophic fish kill that took place there in May 2023.&nbsp; 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