Rita McGrinder is Still Here

Meet Rita, forthright, funny and bloody furious. It’s 2010 and fifty-something barmaid Rita McGrinder is opening the doors to the same old regulars in a back-of-beyond pub in rural Monaghan. As she works, she delivers a caustic recollection of a disappointed life, but one lived in extraordinary times. Hers is a story that, despite all its rural mundanity, encompasses violence, sex, scientific discovery, illiterate nuns, hypocrisy, terrorism, sock laundry, Daniel O’Donnell, showbands, dying priests, Jedward, and strap-ons.