#gerry-ryan

#gerry-ryan

Rex Ryan's ­controversial one-man show, The Monk, bears testament to his superb talents as a theatrical multi-tasker - writer, director, producer and actor - who is undoubtedly destined for great things. The son of shock-jock Gerry, one of Ireland's greatest broadcasters who relished pushing the parameters to provoke debate and challenge consensus, has shown that he is a chip off the old block.

'Dad would have been all over this if he was alive,' says Gerry Ryan's son Actor Rex Ryan says he believes his father Gerry Ryan would have appreciated The Monk, his one-man show about the life and times of alleged crime boss Gerry Hutch, as he prepares to bring the stage production to a wider audience next year. It has been speculated that Hutch will use the show's next run