'Mallow is brilliant' — Young Offender Demi Isaac Oviawe defends hometown
Demi Isaac Oviawe and Mícheál O Muircheartaigh at the launch of the Coca-Cola Alone Christmas campaign. Picture: Andres Poveda
IMAGINE an eight-year-old girl who lives for the limelight. The school nativity play is being cast. She holds her breath. That iconic leading lady role just has to be hers.
But Demi Isaac Oviawe discovers her destiny this time is to tread the boards as one of the three wise men. “It was the first play I ever did,” she recalls as we meet over Zoom. “I was super-heartbroken about being told I was to be one of the wise men.
