Blog: Asleep on the compost heap

Any aspiring Irish realist drama such as pure mule has a charismatic character's nickname at the heart of it. Yet the trouble is, said nickname is usually shit. I mean 'scobey'. They are like an unfortunate verbal trope from an early Tommy Tiernan show or recent Ardal O'Hanlon. You know the bit in the act where said comedian says to the audience "wait til I tell yis about the fella from navan, his name was 'shovel' and then we knew this traveler called 'black and decker'". I also notice that Dublin-based kitchen sink Irish dramas (typically made by gentrified NCAD [...]