The House Must Win review: Tommy Tiernan among the stars of Mick Flannery adaptation 

The stage adaptation of Mick Flannery's debut album has its premiere run in Dún Laoghaire before moving to Cork 

Tabitha Smyth and Tommy Tiernan in The House Must Win, the stage adaptation of Mick Flannery’s debut album. Picture: Ruth Medjber

The House Must Win The Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire ★★★★☆

An adaptation of Evening Train was previously staged in Cork in 2019, and Mick Flannery’s debut album from 2005 is again imagined here, rewritten and retitled as The House Must Win in a musical directed with aplomb by Julie Kelleher.