Munster Express Online

Start the theatrical year with The Tinker’s Curse at Garter Lane Theatre, on Friday 28th January, the story of a travelling man who climbs Croagh Patrick to do penance for the sins of a lifetime.

Michael Harding plays Rattigan, a traveller old enough to remember when the travelling people had a place in the scheme of things, fixing pots and pans. Along the way we meet his wife Julia, the 7th daughter of a 7th daughter, his daughter Michelle, who is blissfully unaware of the effects of her blossoming sexuality, and Johnny Reilly, a “buffer” or settled man who comes a courting.