Return to Killroe
Directed by Eoin O’Callaghan
Monday 13th November 2006. at 2.15pm om Radio

Synopsis
Inspired by the charity work of the Arlington hostel in Camden, which cares for displaced and derelict exiles from Ireland, John Rooney’s play gets behind the reasons why so many men in their 70’s from good homes and tight-knit communities, find them selves displaced and discarded; unable to cope with London and unwilling to return to the land of their birth.

One of an army of navvies to flood London in the 1950’s, Paddo Doherty (TP McKenna) now finds himself exiled and destitute in a Camden hostel. An intensely private man, he is reluctant to speak about why he left Ireland all those years before, and is totally resistant to accepting a short holiday trip back home. However, once persuaded, Paddo is staggered by the new wealth of a country and a people who have changed beyond recognition – including his only remaining relative, who to his pain and shame seems not to want to know him.

Cast
Paddo TP McKenna
Ann Eleanor Methven
Rory John Hewitt
Mary Lizzy McInnerny
Dumper Kevin Flood
Sean Neal McWilliams
Roisin Sarah Gordon

Writer
John Rooney is an experienced radio writer. He has had 20 plays produced, one of which won a Giles Copper Award. His brilliantly comic novel, Bottling it Up was published by Blackstaff press last year.

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