Paul Howard is probably best known as the creator of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, but his latest project is Copper Face Jacks: The Musical, which begins its run at the Olympia Theatre this July.

"It's one of those ideas that when I heard it first I instantly laughed," Paul told us on The Last Word. "If I hear a title that makes me laugh I'll go and see it."

Paul says he used to be a regular at Copper Face Jacks with his friends in the late '90s and early 2000s. But as a Dubliner, and given the club's popularity among people from the country, what was the attraction?

"A lot of nightclubs in Dublin at that time had an exclusive door policy, but you could go to Copper Face Jacks and expect to get in."

"You were never charged a tenner for a pint, the music they played was incredibly cheesy and it never took itself too seriously. To me it always had the feel of a GAA club disco, and everyone knows a night in Coppers is a synonym for something quite archaic."

Paul describes the musical as getting "the Moulin Rouge/West Side Story treatment - it's the story of how two people from vastly different backgrounds try to find love despote all of the obstacles."

It follows a girl from Cahersiveen who arrives in Dublin and discovers it isn't what she thought it would be. She wanders into Copper Face Jacks and immediately feels at home, and subsequently falls in love with the captain of the Dublin football team.

Paul has written 16 songs for the musical, which is set to be cast in the next few weeks. As for what people can expect, he says, "People are going to come to this with the same expectation they have when they go for a night in Coppers, that there's going to be great music and they'll have a great night out."