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Joe Rooney is a stand up comedian best known for his role as Father Damo in the Channel Four series Father Ted. He has also acted and written for the RTE series Killinascully, Red Rock (TV3), Roy (BBC), the feature film South and on the stage in The Shawshank Redemption (Edinburgh Fringe) and The Chastitute (Gaiety Theatre). As a stand up he has performed in cities worldwide including Shanghai, Moscow, Dubai, Chicago, Toronto, Barcelona and Bangkok.

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Episode 30 – Thomas Walsh

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Thomas Walsh. Thomas is the singer and songwriter with the band Pugwash. Pugwash have released 6 studio albums the latest of which is Play Intimately (As If Among Friends). They have recently toured the…
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Episode 29 – Ronan MacManus

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Ronan MacManus. Ronan grew up in Twickenham, West London, His father Ross MacManus was a musician and trumpet player, with Joe Loss and his orchestra, (and also responsible for the music and vocals from…
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Episode 28 – Michael Collins

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On the new episode of PODAROONEY, I chat with Michael Collins. Michael first came to prominence as an actor in the long running soap Glenroe. He has also starred in the films Man About Dog, King Of The Travellers and the award winning Pavee…
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Episode 27 – Frank Kelly

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Frank Kelly. Frank of course is best known as Father Jack Hackett the raving drunken foul mouth priest from Father Ted. But I first knew him as Parnell Mooney on RTE's Hall's Pictorial Weekly. As a young…
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Episode 26 – Ardal O’Hanlon

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Ardal O'Hanlon. I got to know Ardal when I was starting out in comedy and we all met once a week at The Comedy Cellar in The International Bar. Since then we have worked together on and off most notably…
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Episode 25 – Kevin McAleer

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Kevin McAleer. The first time I saw Kevin live was in Andrews Lane Theatre. He came on stage and without saying anything more than " Aye" and "Well ye see" he had the audience in stitches for a good ten…
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Episode 24 – Dermot Whelan

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Dermot Whelan, I work with Dermot on a regular basis with The Dublin Comedy Improv. He is a tremendous improviser and has brought those talents to his radio show The Dermot and Dave Show on Today FM. He…
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Episode 23 – Cathy Davey

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Cathy Davey. I met Cathy at The Electric Picnic after performing at her stage "My Lovely Ranch" which she set up to promote and collect donations for her charity "My Lovely Horse". The charity rescues…
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Episode 22 – Colm O’Regan

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On the new episode of PODAROONEY, I chat with Colm O'Regan. Colm is a stand up comedian and best selling author of the series of books "Irish Mammies" which sprang from the twitter account @irishmammies. He is also a columnist with The…
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Episode 21 – Des Bishop

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This week on PODAROONEY, I chat with Des Bishop. I first got to know Des Bishop when I was running a comedy club on Thursday nights in The International Bar called The Mad Cow Comedy Club. He was a new act doing ten-minute slots. Then I…