01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
Tommy Tiernan: ‘I have no real facility for handling money. I love shopping, but I have no interest in investing or saving'
He may be used to asking the questions, but Tommy Tiernan is rarely short of things to say. From quantum physics to brain surgery, buying a motorbike and being an irresponsible dad, he covers a lot of ground in a frank chat with Tanya Sweeney
Tommy Tiernan starts every morning with a double espresso (and, very occasionally, a cigar) and no wonder. You'd want to be fairly caffeinated to keep up with the Galway-based actor/comedian's significant workload.
Today, we are meeting in the Abbey Theatre, where Tiernan is gearing up for a role in three-hander The Cave, a black comedy written by Kevin Barry and co-starring Aaron Monaghan and Judith Roddy.