How Ross O’Carroll-Kelly was born

From his double-barrelled surname to his school, the greatest player never to play for Ireland was conceived one winter’s afternoon in the offices of the now-defunct ‘Sunday Tribune’



Breaking Dad: the upstaging of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly

In the third Ross play, his daughter arrives home with a 17-year-old version of him. And the key lesson from the first two plays? Writing comedy for the stage is very different to writing comedy for the page





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