Ireland on the therapy couch with Eleanor Tiernan
IRELAND has had a fair old battering over the last 1,000 years. Comedian Eleanor Tiernan has catalogued a litany of those woes for her new comedy show, the ‘National Therapy Project’. These woes include “the stealing of Trevelyan’s corn, the repression of our glorious and righteous human sexual desires by the Catholic Church, the alarming spread of foot and mouth disease, Sonia O’Sullivan getting diarrhea in the tunnel, Louis Walsh and his mediocrity factory, when the children of Lir turned into swans for 900 years, the sale of our oil and gas to Shell for a handful of magic beans, when Miley took Fidelma for a roll in the hay, the space around Ryan Tubridy that he doesn’t take up…”
To ease the pain, Tiernan’s self-styled National Identity Management Agency will put on the ‘National Therapy Project’, at the Tiger Dublin Fringe. The show grew out of a skit Tiernan did on St Patrick’s Day earlier this year, at RTÉ’s online Mansion House gig, ‘We Need to Talk About Ireland’.
