Sometimes you feel as though Irish comedians have an unfair advantage because just hearing those lovely accents puts you in a good mood. And Aideen McQueen, from Kilkenny, is a classic example. Waiting for Texto is a brilliant, inventive take on the standard stand-up comedy routine.

Aideen presents her take on the challenges of the modern dating scene, not as a series of one-liners and anecdotes but as a one-person comedy. Aideen plays Lucy, a young(ish) single woman living in a flatshare house. Lucy is ‘obsessed’ with embarking on a relationship with ‘Tom’ and we catch up with Lucy the day after a night with ‘Tom’ and at the point where she has just texted him to say what a great time she’d had and ‘how about it?’.

What follows is Lucy sharing with us the range of thoughts and emotions she goes through as time ticks by and the response from Tom is always the next ping away. We are her erstwhile flatmates, and she occasionally solicits our opinion for guidance and reassurance and ‘do you think it’s him?’. She explores tinder, unconditionally supportive Mums, brevity of booty calls, situationships, ubereats, pillowfies, pelfies and various other selfie variations and so on. It’s hilarious and delivered so perkily.

But there is also a serious underlying message about the anxieties and mental health issues that can arise because of the prominence of electronic contact. Aideen is an Irish language speaker and I thought we might get a few new phrases to savour. Actually all we got was ‘ride’, but that’s a cracker of a word, to be sure.

What a vivacious, sparkling woman Aideen is. One of the hardest things is suspending disbelief to the point of accepting that someone like her could really be feeling so insecure about receiving a return text. But I guess that’s the dating scene in the era of social media.

Get yourself along to the Comedy Den at Neon Palms and let Aideen McQueen charm the pants off you.