The Show Must Go On!

The show must go on! That's what Dónall Dempsey, my partner, decided this week - our monthly poetry performance night was on Tuesday 17th June but on Sunday15th, Dónall was laid low very suddenly and very violently. When he went to the doctor's surgery on Monday morning, doubled up with pains in his abdomen, our doctor was stumped as to what's causing the pain, and tests have so far given no clue. It remains there, "like a little animal gnawing him away from inside his belly-button" as Dónall graphically describes it.

Nevertheless, Dónall was determined on Tuesday to carry on regardless, and to watch him you wouldn't guess that he hadn't slept for two nights because of the pain he was still suffering. Here's a clip of the first ten minutes of the night - Dónall rambling, story-telling and just .... keeping going like the professional he is!

It turned into one of the best nights we've had - but Dónall still has the "little animal inside", barely controlled by several kinds of painkillers. Watch this space for better news, I hope, next week.