Aonghus McAnally??

joseph brand

Does anyone know where this devilishly handsome hunk of a man went to, where is he now???

He was so great/crap on that community games thingy on tv where contestants/victims had to run around a field with multi0coloured sponges and buckets,(can't remember the name of it, never watched it), and then moved onto that amazing game show/crock of poo,'Lyrics board'.
He is almost as bearable as an open bear trap up the backside.
I would put him in the same league as the insufferable bore/oulone, Derek Mooney(Fame & Fortune).

Cant seem 2 find any pics of the oul Aonghus fella on the net???

Mossy Monk

Dampsquid

He does the commentry on the irish open snooker each year.

Victor

A guy I used to live with was in a band with him back in the 1970s. They would sometimes play Gibney's in Malahide rivalling one of the local bands. They eventually broke up, but they other band went on to do OK for themselves - apparently they were called "U2".

DaithiSurfer

I thought the lyrics board was rubbish too.
But it is the biggest grossing irish show ever (sold to overseas networks).

aidan_dunne

Somebody mentioned Aonghus McAnally doing that comedy thing on another thread and I thought to myself, "Jaysus, Aonghus McAnally. Now there's a blast from the past!"

The only thing I could remember him from was "Anything Goes" (which, as patch69 so rightly pointed out, us early 80's children were reared on, along with a healthy dose of Bosco!) and his odd shoes, red one on one foot, yellow on the other, his odd, multicoloured, rainbow striped t-shirts and jumpers and playing the guitar singing along with a bunch of kids sitting around him at the end of the show. And what about his co-presenter Mary, ummm, Mary, ummm, Mary Something-or-other! The queen of "Make-And-Do." Man, what she couldn't do with a couple of toilet roll inserts, a half dozen pipe cleaners, an empty yogurt pot and tons of sellotape and malla! I think I recall her once making a full size, fully functioning Space Shuttle out of all these components!

But then I remembered that, yes, he does indeed do the commentary on the Benson & Hedges, whoops, sorry, I mean Citywest Irish Masters Snooker every year. Until joseph brand mentioned "The Lyrics Board." *shudder* Best left forgotten, as far as I'm concerned.

Still, certainly brought back lots of memories of getting up early Saturday mornings for "Anything Goes." Is it just me or was it's replacement, "Scratch Saturday", nowhere near as good?

By the way, isn't this slipping more and more into more of an All Things Retro kind of thread. *mods - nudge, nudge, wink, wink*

Crucifix

Originally posted by DaithiSurfer
it is the biggest grossing irish show ever (sold to overseas networks).

I have lost the will to live.

aidan_dunne

Yeah Crucifix, I read somewhere years ago that, unfortunately, this fact is true. Andy Ruane's (remember that red-headed, mullet head, four-eyed eejit who used to do that chart show/teenage disco thingumeebob show each Saturday after "Scratch Saturday") production company Like It - Love It was responsible for the atrocity that was "The Lyrics Board." He sold the concept of the show all over the world and it became the biggest ever Irish show to be sold overseas and made Ruane a multi-millionaire. It seems it was/is particularly popular in the former Soviet bloc countries and some Far East countries (must be the whole sing-song/kareoke thing the Asians love!).

Last I heard, Andy Ruane had launched a new media company and was looking to break into digital television or TV-over-the-web or something like that.

DMC

He was involved in RTÉ Radio's output for the Special Olympics recently.

fisty

he plays snooker in malahide,
played him a few times.
he's good too.

joseph brand

wanted to e-mail pic of the Aonghus fells to some pals just to wreck their heads on a Monday morn, could not find him anywhere.

tanx again

Victor

Originally posted by fisty
he plays snooker in malahide, played him a few times.
he's good too.

Him being a former Irish champion (IIRC by default) and all that.