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Radicals on both sides were wrong says young star of Martin Lynch civil rights play

Theatre actress Emer McDaid takes on a double challenge in new play, We'll Walk Hand in Hand – here she tells Gail Bell why she was prepared to be dragged across the stage for her art

Actress Emer McDaid, who appears in Martin Lynch's We’ll Walk Hand in Hand Picture: Mal McCann
Gail Bell
A GRITTY new play marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights campaign in Belfast is set to open in the Lyric Theatre this month, leaving no tricky topic unexplored according to one of the actres[...]

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