Crisis and comeback: The shenanigans that saved the Cork Film Festival

In an excerpt from his book on Cork in the 1980s, Michael Moynihan looks behind the scenes at the shenanigans that saved the city’s film festival.

It was the 1984 version of the Cork Film Festival when everything came to a head. “We were sitting up in the balcony for one of the films,” says Theo Dorgan, “Myself, Mick Hannigan and Robbie McDonald, when it was announced that the festival was in trouble.