Facing up to Irish humour

As Tommy Tiernan continues his World Tour of Cork, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick how he enjoys the different nuances of whichever county he’s in

TOMMY TIERNAN is in the middle of a never-ending jaunt around Ireland’s constituencies. Every few weeks he tackles a different county. He’s gigging in West Cork at the moment, and says he has a love of trucking around the island.

“Apart from a wonderful way of living,” he says, “one of the things I get a kick out of is finding out the tolerance people have for being slagged, and also then the reputation of one county in another county.