COMEDY

In spite of the title this is not really about Facebook, although there are lots of references to it. We get a Powerpoint presentation with the look and feel of Facebook about the history of Ireland, where writing on someone’s wall has an entirely different meaning if they live in an end terrace in Belfast or Derry.

We are led through the life of the performer, from the unfashionable end of Co. Cork, growing up in the village of Dripsey, to his life in Dublin, through the financial crisis and beyond in a hilarious and intimate way. By the time he got onto the subject of idiotic solicitors’ letters, of which I’ve had a few, I was so drawn in I found myself in conversation with him and it took me a few seconds before I thought to myself “shut up you idiot, these people have come to see a comic genius not the ramblings of a jaded hack”.

Sadly readers of this publication will have to put up with the latter unless they have the good sense to see this show. I’d advise seeing it soon, when word gets out of how good it is tickets will be like gold dust.