Navan duo for TV special

Navan natives, comedian Tommy Tiernan and TV presenter Hector " hEochagáin, are transferring their radio partnership to television over Christmas when they will host a comedy show from their adopted home of Galway. 'Tommy And Hector's Craic House' will be broadcast on Sunday next, 27th December, at 9.35pm on RTE One. The show will be an hour of comedy, chat, music and entertainment. Recorded in front of a live audience at the Radisson Hotel in Galway, it will feature interviews, performances and craic from the former schoolmates at St Patrick's Classical School in Navan. The two men originally teamed up for a show on the youth radio station, i105-107, based in Athlone, which saw a controversial poster campaign featuring the duo, while " hEochagáin was Tiernan's best man at his wedding in Castle Leslie, Co Monaghan, earlier this year. The special will be repeated on RTE 2 at 9.30pm on New Year's Day.