Irish celebrities who suddenly vanished out of the spotlight

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Probably that something evil had crept into the church and had manifested. Those young fellas who were dumped into the seminary and monastrys were preyed up. That is where the madness comes from. Terrible things were done to those young lads. You wonder how they ended up that way?

That argument would hold more water if he hadn't stood outside the court room as Rolf Harris was on trial, and calling on the Queen to exonerate Harris.

https://www.joe.ie/news/pic-infamous-former-priest-neil-horan-spotted-supporting-rolf-harris-outside-court-london-575198

Harris was accused of assaulting children.

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Father Neil Horans family are from Kerry and have tried to "contain" him. He must have been in college and had an early taste of what was being planned for us. I havent seen his twitter feed but because he is mad doesnt mean he is wrong.

Neil Horan doesnt' talk about any of that crud. He's not coming after the church or anything that... 'heroic' I guess.

Instead he's preaching 'End of days' or calling on God to come forth and clean up the planet of it's sins. Hating on 'Jews for marrying gentiles'... as well as claiming they're betraying their heritage.

Hangdogroad wrote: »

He went on to do the voiceover on nearly every Irish public information film of the 70s/early 80s.

Think he did the voiceover of Old Mr. Brennan too.

Steve Staunton.

Colm Connolly, another RTE News presenter, and he presented the documentary on Michael Collins called the Shadow of Bealnablath

robwen wrote: »

Whatever became of the actress who played Shelly in fair city who had the affair with Harry Molloy

She's a writer for the show now

Grainne Seoige, gone now for a few years now from her day time show, former newsreader, co presenter of Up for the Match and also Crimeline.

I had the Six O clock show on in the background last week, surprised to see Grainne co hosting with Martin King on Virgin Media 1 , she also co hosted a few times last year.

Last time we saw her on the screen was Living with Lucy, it looked like she had made a new life with South African Businessman Leon Jordan.

Hard to believe she lost all her gigs with the National Broadcaster, she worked with all 4 Irish channels, her brief stint in the UK didn't work out either.

She was high profile and a very good looking girl.

There was a time when some celebrities wouldn't be associated with any channel other than the national broadcaster, looks like she is still hankering for a return home if the she got some TV work here?

banoffe2 wrote: »

Grainne Seoige, gone now for a few years now from her day time show, former newsreader, co presenter of Up for the Match and also Crimeline.

I had the Six O clock show on in the background last week, surprised to see Grainne co hosting with Martin King on Virgin Media 1 , she also co hosted a few times last year.

Last time we saw her on the screen was Living with Lucy, it looked like she had made a new life with South African Businessman Leon Jordan.

Hard to believe she lost all her gigs with the National Broadcaster, she worked with all 4 Irish channels, her brief stint in the UK didn't work out either.

She was high profile and a very good looking girl.

There was a time when some celebrities wouldn't be associated with any channel other than the national broadcaster, looks like she is still hankering for a return home if the she got some TV work here?

Seoige hardly vanished, tho.

But she was INCREDIBLY expensive to hire.
It costs a LOT of money to make her look like she does. And she wasn't a very nice person, by all accounts.
(I've met a few of her colleagues from Virgin Media-they're genuinely the nicest people. Collette Fitzpatrick was very down to earth with people, for example.)

I don't know how good the Living with Lucy program was-I tend to avoid that show.

And when she turned up for 'Up for the Match', she often didn't know what was going on.

Thanks George White and Rabble Rouser2K for the updates and comments.

I didn't think she was right for Up for the Match, Jacqui Hurley is the ideal fit for the role especially with her background in sports journalism.

I thought Nationwide would be the ideal role for Grainne when Mary Kennedy retired as she has the Gaeilge and plenty experience, Blaithnid got the job, possibly an internal promotion!

George White wrote: »

She always seemed quite cold in a way that could pass off optimistically as "enigmatic".
While Colette Fitzpatrick has always emanated a kind of warmth.

Oh yeah, looking back, her and Alan Cantwell could be quite... standoff-ish, tbh.
I think TV3 were trying to be the 'anti-RTE'... and at times veered too close to a**hole. Not that RTE were much better, tbh. (Also note, RTE recruited much of the then TV3's presenters once they left the station, such as Grainne, Claire Byrne, Dmitri O'Donnell, to name a few. Many of these people absorb warmth into their cold, dead, veins...).

Collette, like I said, is the total opposite. She's genuinely warm and down to earth.

banoffe2 wrote: »

Thanks George White and Rabble Rouser2K for the updates and comments.

I didn't think she was right for Up for the Match, Jacqui Hurley is the ideal fit for the role especially with her background in sports journalism.

I thought Nationwide would be the ideal role for Grainne when Mary Kennedy retired as she has the Gaeilge and plenty experience, Blaithnid got the job, possibly an internal promotion!

Mary Kennedy was someone I could never warm to. My mam and dad HATED her, and while some folks I would disagree with them on, Kennedy was one I agreed with.
When Kennedy was on Up for the Match, she was so cack-handed at the job that they brought in a new presenter, Des Cahill. Who eventually took over the show. (Mary would often host the whole show As Gaeilige, without subtitles. For the majority of the audience sitting at home, who want to enjoy a show or discussion of the All-Ireland the next day, it was pretty ignorant and snobbish to go on discussions in another language, and then be like 'well, tough' if you can't understand it. )

I think Grainne was always seeing herself as a superstar, when she was literally a newsreader. Like, she went to Sky IReland (Now defunct) and that was heralded as this major coup for her (The Sky News was watched less than any other news station in IReland. It would even have trailed UTV IReland, if they had been around at the same time). I don't think she had the warmth for even Nationwide, I imagine she'd see it as beneath her. Not that Blathnaid has warmth either, we all know she's a genuinely nasty individual (the court case proved that).

Might have got the promotion, they craved.

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Seoige hardly vanished, tho.

But she was INCREDIBLY expensive to hire.
It costs a LOT of money to make her look like she does. And she wasn't a very nice person, by all accounts.

That seems to be a common public perception alright, but having encountered her a few random times over the years have the opposite to be true. For example, one day I joined the top of a queue in a shop while she was ahead of me talking to one of the guys behind the till. She was buying a present for her son and was asking a few questions to make sure that it was the right one. She couldn't have been more polite and courteous if she tried. Same goes for any other time I bumped into her.

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Not that Blathnaid has warmth either, we all know she's a genuinely nasty individual (the court case proved that).

What court case?

the purple tin wrote: »

Remember the RTE insider who was revealing secrets from Donnybrook? The big wigs were going mad trying to find out who it was.
Who was it, was it ever revealed?

Why did the insider stop posting revelations?

They said nothing that wasn't known to everyone with even a passing interest in media too.

Brendan Kilkenny

Jean Byrne. She's there all the time