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‘It makes me happier to believe in an afterlife, even if I don't believe it entirely’ – Con Horgan
Circus company founder and street performer Con Horgan on his earliest ambition and the five famous guests he’d like to have around to dinner
Young people are constantly advised to follow their passions and for class clown Con Horgan, that meant becoming a professional clown. After school Horgan, from Kerry, earned a degree in marine science and a masters in electroacoustic composition, but making people laugh by clowning around was always his main interest. “I was always interested in performance,” he says. “I performed in many CBS boys theatre productions in Tralee. I was generally the class clown.”
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