Lilac Bus

Every Friday night Tom Fitzgerald’s lilac-coloured minibus is a\nmeeting place for the same cast of seven, who always use it to\ntravel home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Disparate\ncharacters, who embark at an anonymous pick-up point, each one has\nan inner life unknown to his or her fellow passengers.

\n

There’s Nancy Morris, a real ‘Miss Mouse’ who is known for her\nmeanness; Dee Burke – engrossed in her affair with an unfaithful\nhospital consultant; and Kev Kennedy who is a bit of a mystery to\neveryone, including his own family. Then there’s Celia Ryan. Each\ntime she returns home to Ryan’s Bar, it is only to find her mother\nmaking a drunken exhibition of herself in front of half the local\npopulation. And, of course, Tom Fitzgerald himself has his own\nreasons for returning home so regularly…

\n\n