In October of 1975, at the end of a long tour of Britain, Billy Connolly came to Ireland to perform his comedy act here for the first time. The Troubles were at their height, and he had been warned by many that his safety could not be guaranteed. “They asked me,” he tells a journalist at a Dublin press conference, “so I thought what the hell.”
Having scooped the much-coveted A New Local Hero award, Brad Heidi is on an unstoppable upward trajectory. He talks industry breakthroughs, life-changing tra.