There’s something about Seána
Seána Kerslake began her career on screen, yet she is proving as formidable on stage, writes Catherine Healy
‘Why hadn’t he the guts to locate this filth in his own county?” So fumed the late Leitrim councillor Joe Mooney at a meeting of the local authority in 1977, taking aim at the RTÉ adaptation of Monaghan-based Eugene McCabe’s King of the Castle. Mooney declared the play to be a “slander on Leitrim and the women of Ireland”.
It was the sort of muck that “might have gone down well with the so-called ...
