Have you ever been on TV..Not Crimeline

My trick used to be standing on Hill 16 in a direct line with the black spot on the crossbar and the TV cameras in the Hogan Stand. In addition to this I would wear a colour not worn by either of the competing teams, such as an orange t-shirt while watching Kildare v Meath.

I was stopped walking down a street and interviewed live on the evening news in Turkey the night Pope JP11 died. They stopped me to ask where I was from told them I was Irish but forgot to say not a catholic.
Funny night the Turks were big fans of Pope JP11 they were very sad over his death

I've acted in a few hit shows. I'm pretty big in Latvia.

I was interviewed on the way to croke park for the Sunday game. For my eternal shame I had a good few beers in me. Thank god no one had sky plus back then.

I was in a pipe band years ago, in South Africa, and in addition to a few appearances on the news, we did a concert with a symphony orchestra that was broadcast nationally. My 15 minutes, puffing away in to a howling sheep's stomach.

(Trivia: a bagpipe can only be tuned to itself: you have to adjust the reed so that the notes are in tune with each other, not some external reference, unless you change the reed. So the whole orchestra had to re-tune to match the bagpipes ... no wonder I gave the bloody thing up.)

To my eternal shame Pop TV an tSamhraidh on TnaG.

Yes

Any minute now The Backwards Man is going to mention Blackboard Jungle :-)

This summer I was on a guided tour of Sarajevo, a news crew came along to film us on the tour. Never got to watch it though.

Also my photo was on The Den for my 6th birthday

About being seen "behind the goals" at matches, there's a girl on my Facebook who's consumed by this. Every time she goes to a game she posts some grainy picture, saying "see those 6x5 pixels in the top left? That's me!". Just comes across a little needy.

Den TV's Jokebox. I was 9 or so and i was very proud of my sh1tty joke.

Back in the late 90's, TG4 made a programme where Niall Tobin went back to his old school to reminisce about his years there. An Irish speaking school.

Michael Davitt, the poet, was directing the programme and for this segment Niall was standing at the top of the classroom regaling us, the 6th year's with anecdotes. I got to ask a question which was given to me, so I knew I would get to be on the programme, in all my handsome glory, and not in the background in a 'pause or you'll miss it' cameo appearance.

The question was "Did you ever take part in amatuer drama's suring your school years".

Being a one camera set up, they filmed me Niall's response first. Then Davitt turned the camera to me and told me to ask the question again so it could be edited in again.

So there's me, giving the same question the full Gielgud treatment, and smart arse Tobin pipes up in that faux outraged actor way "I do believe I've been asked this question already?!?".

Davitt explains the situation and Niall gives a nonchalant shrug.

So yeah, I was on the telly once

My legs are in a segment RTE News did on our primary school.


Beat that :cool:

A slowed down shot of me clapping was used at the end of the credits of a rugby match I was at. My parents rang me to tell me they had seen it. My mum criticised my clapping style .