Tommy Tiernan adds Athlone date to Irish tour

Comedian Tommy Tiernan has added a stop in Athlone as part of his upcoming Irish tour, 'tommedian'.

Tommy will perform at the Dean Crowe Theatre in Athlone on February 15 next.

Tickets will go on sale on Monday next, September 23, at 10am.

The tour is described as “a wild, uninhibited and fiercely physical display of stand-up”, and will see Tommy visit venues across Ireland.

Whle he is best known for his time growing up in Navan, Tommy also spent some time in Athlone as a youngster.

His great-grandfather was the late Frank Flanagan, who was postmaster at the old Athlone sub-post office on Mardyke Street.

Mr Flanagan’s daughter Mary was Tommy’s grandmother. Tommy’s grandfather came from Mayo and worked in the Irish Land Commission and was based in Athlone.

Tommy’s uncle is the former Roscommon County Council Manager, John Tiernan, whose daughter, Eleanor, is also a popular comedian on television in Ireland and the UK.

Tommy went briefly to the Marist school in Athlone. In 2015, he was interviewed by the Westmeath Independent and said that among his first Athlone memories were sitting in class in school hanging out with Charlie Greene and Dan Kelly and also shooting pool in Pat’s Bar above the Joke Shop.

Tommy dedicated his first book, ‘Winging It’, based on interviews he did on his RTE 1 chat show, 'The Tommy Tiernan Show', to his Athlone-based family.

He said in a 2020 interview on Brendan O’Connor’s RTE Radio 1 show after the book was released that it is dedicated to the Tiernans of Athlone and is in memory of his late uncle Dan, and grandmother Mary.

He said “as a tribe, the Tiernans of Athlone are very important to me”.

Tickets for the 'tommedian' show in Athlone will be available from Monday for €39 + booking fee.