Dragons board Santa Ponsa trip from Leeside

ANYONE who manages to emerge from the Den with the support of all five Dragons would need to have a Corker of a business plan.

After performing just one scene from their show “Santa Ponsa or Bust” on last night’s Dragon’s Den, that is exactly what veteran Cork comedians Frank Twomey and Pakie O’Callaghan managed to persuade all five of the Dragons to stump up funding to bring the show out of Cork and onto stages nationwide. There is now talk of turning the show into a TV sitcom.

Santa Ponsa or Bust is the first of a trilogy of shows devised by the two men. The second is Surviving Santa Ponsa followed by After Santa Ponsa. The first installment was produced in the Everyman in 2006 and they been performing in Cork since.