Jack Lynch: To Cork, of Cork, by Cork

Declan Hassett and Pat Talbot have teamed up to create a play about Jack Lynch’s incredible feats in both sport and politics, writes Jo Kerrigan.

March brings a new play to Cork, of Cork, by Cork. Declan Hassett, a former arts editor of this newspaper, has created his latest drama around the life of one extraordinary man whose achievements both on the sporting field and in the political arena would be hard to surpass.

And this year, 2017, is the centenary of his birth. In Cork of course, where else?