Pat Talbot recounts a historic evening with Mo Mowlam at the Everyman

Mo Mowlam's last public appearance in Ireland was at the Everyman Palace Theatre in Cork in 2005. Patrick Talbot, Director/CEO at the time, recalls a momentous evening

Mo Mowlam during her show at the Everyman Palace in 2005.

I got the call just after 5pm. Mo Mowlam, the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, had fallen in her hotel room, would I go to the hotel immediately?

It was February 9, 2005. I was the director/CEO of the Everyman Theatre Cork and that evening we had an event entitled An Audience with Mowlam. It had sold out weeks in advance.