Navan Man takes leap of faith

IT seems that Navan Man is getting further and further away from his spiritual home in Co Meath and it might be no surprise if he wound up clutching an Oscar in a few years time.

Stuart Carolan, the creator and voice of Navan Man, an enormously popular sketch on Eamonn Dunphy's old radio show, The Last Word, has just picked up the 37th George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

His first Play, Defender Of The Faith which was premiered on the Peacock stage by the Abbey in March 2004, was a surprising departure from Navan Man a dark thriller about a Republican family set in 1980s Northern Ireland five years after the hunger strikes.