The boys are back in town

Four Angry Men host Olivia O’Leary wants the show to be informative and prescriptive, and not an unfocused pub-style rant, says Alan O’Riordan

IT was a sign of the times in 2009 when large audiences paid to see four men complaining for a couple of hours about the state of the nation. How little times have changed that you can do the same in 2012. The 2009 crew was Fintan O’Toole, Shane Ross, Pat Leahy and Matt Cooper. The latter two have been replaced by David McWilliams and Nick Webb. All four have books to promote and spleen to vent.

Olivia O’Leary will chair the Four Angry Men shows in Dublin and Cork. It will be a question and answer session, with the audience dictating the thrust of the debate. “It’s an opportunity to put on stage the kind of argument that should be happening anyway,” O’Leary says.