Water Cooler Chatter

Panti Roast

In the almost four years since Panti’s Noble Call at the Abbey (she hasn’t aged a day #Photoshop), and the two and a half years since she singlehandedly won marriage equality for Ireland, Ballinrobe’s most exotic export has become what she herself has christened, “a national treasure”. Nowadays, you can’t walk down an Irish borín without Panti staring back at you from a billboard – honestly, those eyes seem to follow you around the streets – TV producers are falling over themselves to immortalise her (and DJ Karen) on the likes of Sky Atlantic, and the Irish Indo website runs with a new story on her every day. Isn’t it well time she was taken down a peg or two? We thought so, so we’ve begun gathering a group of people to do the deed, in public.

Already confirmed for our PantiRoast, which takes place this month at The Tivoli, are comedian Al Porter, who can’t wait to give her good tongue-lashing, and activist-stroke-writer-stroke comedian, Tara Flynn, who’s got a lot of Panti shit to get of her chest. We’ll be posting the names of new roasters as we confirm them on our social media, but in the meantime you should snap tickets up quickly as we expect the spectre of Miss Bliss hearing some home truths to be a sell-out.

The Queen of Ireland will be freely giving of herself to be roasted for this GCN Forever fundraiser, (God bless ya, Bliss!) as are all the people who’ll be lining up to do the dissing, and it promises to be a night to remember, for some at least. Some may want to forget, especially when the Queen herself gets a right to reply. We fear no one will be safe.

PantiRoast is at The Tivoli on Saturday, November 25 at 8pm, tickets from eventbrite, with all proceeds going to GCN Forever