Eleanor Tiernan afraid of being a 'dry shite' at Cork Comedy Festival

Eleanor Tiernan is bringing her new stand up show to the Cork Comedy Festival. She tells Esther McCarthy how her move to London inspired her new material.

COMEDIENNE Eleanor Tiernan is a self-confessed people-pleaser. She proves her point by telling me about the day she hopped in a taxi in Dublin, and ended up standing at the side of the road with a bag of the taxi driver’s rubbish.

“At the end of the journey, the taxi driver asked me to take with me, when I was going, the bag of rubbish that he’d had from the whole day.