Don for Chickens as the quirky voice of Cork

An ode to Mattie Kiely’s chipshop and a poke at the city’s main drainage scheme form part of a new show inspired by the words of the late Mick Lynch, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

In the 1980s, Cork’s successes on the international stage were few and far between, so Mark Wilkins has never forgotten his mother’s response when, as a boy, he switched on the new ‘Multi-channel’, which beamed UK TV stations into their home, only to see a young man from the same street being interviewed about his band.