Eric Lalor is helping to raise €500,000 for healthcare workers on the frontline of the pandemic and he wants to see their ‘minimal pay’ improved.
The comedian will be hosting Gigs from the Gaff to raise funds on Saturday 9 May and speaking to EVOKE, he explained why he wanted to do something to give back to our healthcare heroes.
When the threat of the pandemic was looming, Eric said: ‘What immediately effected me looking at the horror stories coming from China and Italy before it got here was the number of frontline health workers putting their lives on the line to help us and I knew it was coming our way.’ ‘As soon as lockdown was announced, my first thought was to the healthcare workers.’ ‘Like a lot of people, all my livelihood was