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Patrick McCabe is a Monaghan-born playwright and novelist. His novel The Butcher Boy (1992) was adapted into a film directed by Neil Jordan and released in 1996. His novel Breakfast on Pluto (1998) was also adapted by Jordan into a feature film in 2005. McCabe wrote the play Frank Pig Says Hello, based on The Butcher Boy, which was performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1992. His work has also been broadcast by RTÉ and the BBC.