Always good at creative writing, Ciaran parted company with school before taking his A levels. After a while he left Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh for Glasgow to attend drama school. Then, moving to London, he began to act, and has been doing so ever since.

A psychiatric patient’s densely written letters to her husband inspired David Fennessy to compose a haunting dirge for the Cork Choral Festival, says Jo Kerrigan.

'Dr Who' star David Tennant has backed a campaign opposing cutbacks at his former drama school, as student campaigners prepare to meet funding experts today.