Sep 22 2022
Christian O’Reilly’s new play No Magic Pill was a slow burner. Now that it’s finally being staged in Dublin and Galway, he has fulfilled a longtime promise to the late disability campaigner Martin Naughton from An Spidéal. Christian tells JUDY MURPHY how this brilliant and contradictory man changed lives and inspired him.
Christian O’Reilly was fresh out of DCU and in need of a job when he first met Martin Naughton, originally from An Spidéal and living in Dublin. Martin, who had muscular dystrophy, was an activist, seeking rights for disabled people and had established an Independent Living group to do this. He needed someone to lobby on their behalf.
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