Munster venues: Getting back in the groove at Mike the Pies, Cyprus Ave, and Connollys

It's been a tough two years for the music world. In the first of our two-part series, the people involved in three Munster venues tell us how they've survived, and their plans for the post-Covid era

Sam McNicholl, Eoin Aher, Aiden O’Connor. 

Mike the Pies, Listowel, Co Kerry: Aiden O’Connor

Venue spec: Mike the Pies is basically a pub. The back half of the bar is a venue on gig nights and the front stays as a bar. It’s 100 capacity and an L-acoustics rig. “Famously when we had Fontaines DC here, the system we had in would have done the 3Arena, the walls and the windows were shaking,” says O’Connor.