Three stories from our amazing evening in Portstewart for “The First Time…” & a bonus story from the USA: Bernie McGill remembers Byddi & the settle bed; Jim O’Neill remembers his Gaeltacht romance; from Nashville Tamara Shehadeh remembers the day when everything happened at once; Sue Divin remembers a memorable 12th birthday for “himself”. Paul is your host.

Bernie McGill’s reading is an abridged version of ‘The Settle Bed’ originally published online at the Royal Literary Fund’s Collected magazine: https: https://bit.ly/2I0XPID

Tenx9 is a live storytelling event founded in Belfast in 2011 by Paul Doran & Pádraig Ó Tuama where nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a true story from their own life. This week we took tenx9 to the beautiful seaside town of Portstewart and it didn’t disappoint. Not only was it a gorgeous sunny evening but we had a full house at the Flowerfield Arts Centre and some great stories.