Ireland post-bailout proves a compelling drama

This entertaining production shows just how powerless our leaders were in the aftermath of the crash

Peter Hanly plays the late finance minister Brian Lenihan in Bailed Out! playwright Colin Murphy’s latest examination of the Irish financial crisis. Picture: Pat Redmond

Bailed Out!

By Colin Murphy

Directed by Conall Morrison

Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, until today

Rating****

Reviewed by Tom Lyons

Playwright and journalist Colin Murphy combines the discipline of sticking forensically to primary sources with the verve of a good story in his new play about the Irish financial crisis. Bailed Out! begins in the aftermath of the infamous bank guarantee and portrays how our economy plunged into the death-spiral that forced Ireland ...