COMEDIAN Dara Ó Briain has shared a somewhat unfortunate memory from a visit to Rhyl as a youngster prior to his show in the town next month.

The Irish comic brings his “So… Where Were We?” tour to Rhyl’s Pavilion Theatre on Wednesday, March 1.

Ahead of this performance, he told on Twitter of the time when, aged 12, he vomited in the pool at the Sun Centre water park.

He even suggested the idea of a free ticket to his Pavilion show to the teenager who kindly cleaned up his sick that day.

“So… Where Were We?” won the best tour prize at the 2023 Chortle Awards earlier this month.

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Ó Briain said: “This award-winning tour arrives in Rhyl soon, where I once vomited getting out of a swimming pool.

“I’m in the Pavilion this time, so they are blameless on the vomiting front, but the last time I was in Rhyl I played the Sun Centre, and that was where the terrible event happened.

“The scars run deep… not really, I ate too many cocktail sausages and chips; it all came up…

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“I immediately jumped back into the pool, while some poor teenager had to mop it all up. Perhaps we could find them and give them a free ticket.

“It was April 28, 1984. We were coming back from a trip to Man United 0-0 West Ham - which I just Googled! - and then we got back on the coach to Holyhead.

“That’s my Rhyl childhood trauma.”

Tickets for Ó Briain’s Rhyl show are still available and can be purchased via the Pavilion Theatre’s website.