The play about Ford's closure in Cork that was a sell-out success

Although he was only a teenager when the Ford and Dunlop plants on the Marina in Cork closed down in the early 1980s, the events left a lasting impression on Pat Kiernan.

He went on to found a theatre company called Corcadorca which specialises in staging dramatic productions in site-specific venues, rather than normal stages.

As its artistic director in 2004, Pat commissioned a Cork-born writer, Ray Scannell, to write a play about the closures 20 years earlier — and the venue for it would be the old Ford factory site.