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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 80 – Phil Chevron

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Phil Chevron was a musician and song writer with the bands The Radiators From Space and The Pogues, writing songs of the calibre of Television Screen, Enemies, Kitty Ricketts and Clery's Clock for The Radiators and Lorelei and Thousands Are…
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Episode 79 – Tara Flynn

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Tara Flynn is an Irish actress and writer. She came to international attention with her satirical sketches "Racist B&B" which won her Satirist of The Year at the Swift Satire Festival and "Armagayddon" co-written with Kevin McGahern.…
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Episode 78 – Peter Sheridan

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Peter Sheridan is a playwright, Screenwriter and Director. His awards include the Rooney Prize for Literature. In 1980 he was writer in residence in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He has written several novels including "Forty Seven Roses"…
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episode 76 Aidan Gillen

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Aidan Gillen is best known for his role as Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in Game Of Thrones, Tommy Carcetti in The Wire (both HBO series), CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises, Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer As…
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Episode 75 – Aisling O’Neill

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This week on PODAROONEY Aisling O'Neill is perhaps best known for her role as Carol in RTE’s long-running and most popular soap FAIR CITY. I recently acted with her as she played the role of Suzanne in John B.Keane's THE CHASTITUTE directed…
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Episode 74 – Seskin Lane

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Eoin Ryan Anthony is a singer song writer from Thurles whose band is called Seskin Lane. Their album History Of Things To Come is full of well crafted and beautifully played songs topped with Eoin's sweet melodic voice. We met up in The…
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Episode 73 – Brent Pope

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Brent Pope is a New Zealand rugby analyst on RTE television, rugby journalist, charity worker, children's book author, founder of Outside in Art Gallery in Dublin Ireland and owner of POPE shirts. He was born, raised and spent his rugby…
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Episode 72 – Various artists

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Ryan McMullan is Ed Sheeran's opening act for his 2017 summer tour. He is a singer songwriter with immense stage presence and songwriting skills. Deni Bonet is a fiddle player who has played with Cyndi Lauper, REM, Mundy and Sarah…
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Episode 71 – Mary Coughlan

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Mary Coughlan is an Irish jazz and folk singer best known for her rendition of Love Will Tear Us Apart, The Magdalen Laundry and I Want To Be Seduced. Her career kicked off at the age of thirty with the release of the independently produced…