The Mick Clifford Podcast: How the pandemic made a leading Irish tenor change his tune

Gavan Ring is Mick's guest on this week's podcast.

Leading Irish tenor Gavan Ring was so desperate for work during the pandemic that he applied for the job of press officer for the Social Democrats. 

Mr Ring described how like all performing artists he was “feeling an existential weight” during the lockdown as his outlets for work disappeared overnight. He was drawing the Pandemic Unemployment Payment when he saw an advert for the press officer job.