Reggie: 'People love it when you slag their neighbouring town'

If you enjoy hobnobbing with high society but you don’t have tickets to the races then you could do worse than immerse yourself in an evening with Reggie from the Blackrock Road, allegedly the richest man in Ireland (but not for tax purposes).

Reggie will be Live At St Luke’s on Sunday, December 28, with his show Reggie: Oh Lads. This is the culmination of a tour which has sold out shows in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Kerry, and Limerick.

This is your final chance to see this show where the speedo-wearing Reggie is brought to life in all his old stock glory by actor Pat Fitzpatrick. He has brought his controversial character to over 25 venues throughout the year, much to the delight of enthusiastic audiences.

In case you missed him strutting around at a venue near you, then fear not, you will not be deprived of your cup of Reggie, as he will be making himself available to us all again in 2026.

Fitzpatrick is putting the finishing touches to his new show Reggie’s Farm, which will be in Cork’s Everyman Theatre on April 24 as well as other venues throughout the country.

“I think that Reggie travels because there is a rich snob in every town that reckons he is better than everyone else,” said Fitzpatrick.

“People love it when you slag their neighbouring town. So the phrase ‘as rare as a PhD in Kilmallock’ can be re-used as ‘as rare as a PhD in Dunmanway’, depending on where you are playing.”

It seems that slagging and self-deprecation is the name of the game as audiences throughout the land are relishing Reggie and gagging for more, and Fitzpatrick is even taking Reggie’s new show to Belgrade in Serbia in March 2026.

Reggie’s Farm will be the fifth live show documenting the life and times of one of Cork’s favourite characters.

In this new show we will see Reggie moving to rural Ireland, where he starts his own micro-brewing company and will be selling his craft beer from his farm shop.

Audiences are in for a big treat as this is not just fiction but in fact there will soon be a beer launched called ‘Reggie’ which will be on sale at his shows.

“Blarney Brewing Company approached me to do a ‘Reggie’ beer, which we plan to sell from kegs at the show,” said Fitzpatrick.

So as well as the fun of the show, there will be an added atmosphere as audiences can look forward to ordering ‘a pint of Reggie’ during the interval.

Reggie is going full throttle to embrace ‘The Good Life’ by investing in his rural idyll, and that is not just learning how to drive a tractor.

“This is where Reggie does a Jeremy Clarkson and decides to become a farmer and get a TV show out of it.

“I was inspired to write it when I saw Clarkson’s Farm and thought, well if Jeremy Clarkson can do it and move to the Cotswolds, then Reggie can surely buy a farm in East Cork and learn how to drive a tractor and brew beer, and let’s see how he comes to grips with rural Ireland,” said Fitzpatrick.

For a man who never did a day’s work in his life, it should be an interesting experiment.

For those rare few who are unfamiliar with Reggie, he is the self-declared ‘richest man in Ireland, but not for tax purposes’. He comes from ‘old money’ and does not do discretion about his social status.

He has a wife called Marjorie who does not realise that she is in an open marriage with husband Reggie, he of the wandering eye, and gets on with putting together her podcast Effortless. The couple live in a €6.8m mansion on the Blackrock Road in Cork and will soon be adding their new farm in East Cork to their property portfolio along with their bolthole in West Cork and their pad in sun-drenched Martinique.

Reggie first came to public attention when Fitzpatrick wrote the hugely popular Ask Audrey column in the Irish Examiner where he was one of the characters complaining about ‘northsiders walking their dogs on The Marina in Cork’.

Reggie went on to Twitter and became a huge hit there, and then when lockdown happened, he started to record his experiences on his phone and post them online.

“It was great for writing material as the pandemic guidelines kept changing and people were interested in seeing how Reggie, along with the rest of the country, was grappling with that, so the openings and closings of things gave me new angles for Reggie videos and then people started to post them on WhatsApp groups and Reggie was on a roll,” said Fitzpatrick.

“For example, if Reggie happened to mention the GAA club in Carrigaline, then the video was shared like mad on their WhatsApp group and that really helped to bring him to the attention of wider audiences.

“Then in 2021, The Everyman approached me to develop Reggie into a show and I worked with the great director Pat Kiernan who was fantastic and the boot camp I did with him culminated in An Evening with Reggie and Reggie’s Guide to Social Climbing and that brought me here to where I am now currently writing Reggie’s fifth show.

“I am really looking forward to touring and bringing it to The Everyman in April from where it all started, and I am so grateful to The Everyman who were the first to take a punt on me and Reggie.”

Meanwhile, tickets are selling out fast for the Live At St Luke’s show on December 28, which no doubt will be a great post-Christmas treat for those lucky enough to breathe the same air as the richest man in Ireland.

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