Gearóid Farrelly: 'You're never going to coast in Cork'

Gearóid Farrelly had given up on stand-up and started a course in IT when Joanne McNally asked him to go on tour. Ahead of a return to The Everyman, he tells Mary Cate Smith about his journey to making comedy his full-time gig

Comedian Gearóíd Farrelly will bring his show Glamour Hammer to the Everyman, Cork in October. Picture: David Creedon

Dublin comedian Gearóid Farrelly is professing his love for Cork and assuring me that he’s not pandering.

I want to believe him but about 10 seconds into our interview, I did warn him that any mild feelings about Cork would lead to him being cancelled, at least with this writer.