Deirdre O'Kane is standing up for her midlife crisis
DEIRDRE O’Kane is a little nervous. She is coming back to stand-up after a six-year break. “You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage. But, actually, I did a fundraiser a few weeks ago and I realised it’s like riding a bicycle. Within a very short space of time, you’re back in the swing of things.”
And it’s not like she hasn’t been busy. In her most recent comedy hiatus, she released the critically acclaimed, powerful biopic, Noble, about the campaigner, Christina Noble, charmed a new generation of UK fans of Irish comedy, as the Mammy in three series of Moone Boy, and, most recently, finished a stint as Rosemary in the play Beyond Mullingar, in Bath.
