Nicola Tallent

Nobody could have guessed.

That bit absolutely 100%.

But at that very early stage, I recall contacts of mine suggesting that the Hutches were an army.

Did they have the backing of the dissidents?

Was this going to, you know, were they going to be very heavily armed?

Because of that, they had contacts in the north.

It was like as if people were trying to size up how two premiership teams were going to play against one another.

That's what it felt like.

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It's arguably the most controversial stage show in Irish theatre.

But should we be morally outraged by Rex Ryan's production The Monk?

Or should we simply view it as a piece of art?

I'm talking with Niall Donald about The Monk, the play that everyone is talking about.

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Sorry, could you take a head of you?

No, I am.