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Essential comedy: Owen O'Neill at The Errigle in Belfast

Owen O'Neill will be making some Red Noise tonight at the Errigle Comedy Club
Owen O'Neill will be making some Red Noise tonight at the Errigle Comedy Club Owen O'Neill will be making some Red Noise tonight at the Errigle Comedy Club

THE Errigle Inn on Belfast's Ormeau Road has a triple bill of stand-up on offer tonight at their Comedy Club.

Top of the bill is Cookstown comic Owen O'Neill, whose current show Red Noise is described as "a hybrid of stand-up comedy, theatrical monologue and poetry".

Fans can expect to be regaled with many unlikely yet totally true tales, such as queuing up for breakfast with his 15 siblings, getting struck by lightning at nine years old and being told that he had the cure for cancer.

O'Neill will also talk about when he was interrogated by an IRA man with a stammer (the longest two hours of his life) and how his feature film debut with Liam Neeson was not his finest hour.

It'll be the ideal appetiser for anyone planning on tuning it to the Radio Ulster documentary The Town I Love So Well tomorrow morning at 10.30am to hear the funnyman talking to one of the north's other famous O'Neills, Northern Ireland football team manager Michael O'Neill, about his hometown of Ballymena.

Tonight's opening acts are Lurgan stand-up Sean Hegarty and Lisburn comic Alan Irwin, while your MC for the evening will be Omagh stand-up and playwright Conor Keys.

:: Tickets £10, doors 8pm.