Irish celebrities who suddenly vanished out of the spotlight

El Tarangu · 14-01-2019 12:11pm

dball wrote: »

is one of them one of the trio in Foil Arms and Hog?

I wouldn't say so, I remember them being about the same age as Baz; the FAH lads would be at least 10 years younger than him.

AndrewJRenko · 15-01-2019 10:06pm

judeboy101 wrote: »

And Aidan cooney seems to have disappeared. Jesus its like 1984 on that show. Colleagues disappear overnight and they pretend they don't exist. Sinead had a great body, all the same.

He's no loss in fairness. His squinty eyes every time he read the autocue was very off-putting.

donkeykong5 · 15-01-2019 10:46pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

judeboy101 wrote: »

And Aidan cooney seems to have disappeared. Jesus its like 1984 on that show. Colleagues disappear overnight and they pretend they don't exist. Sinead had a great body, all the same.

He's no loss in fairness. His squinty eyes every time he read the autocue was very off-putting.

I thought he was brilliant . He had a true interest in sport and wasn't just pretending to like the others.

blueberrypie · 16-01-2019 10:35am

Not being funny but where is Al Porter gone?

sligojoek · 16-01-2019 10:38am

blueberrypie wrote: »

Not being funny but where is Al Porter gone?

A bit like Al

Bredabe · 16-01-2019 3:48pm

blueberrypie wrote: »

Not being funny but where is Al Porter gone?

Fairly sure that he was in panto this christmas.

skooterblue2 · 16-01-2019 6:39pm

Bredabe wrote: »

Fairly sure that he was in panto this christmas.

I think that was all lined up and they just dumped him right across the board.

RabbleRouser2k · 17-01-2019 9:30am

skooterblue2 wrote: »

I think that was all lined up and they just dumped him right across the board.

Wasn't he replaced by Rory something or other?

Beechwoodspark · 17-01-2019 9:34am

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Wasn't he replaced by Rory something or other?

Yeh. Rory Cowan

Not sure if Alan kavanagh aka al porter was involved in the production/ writing of the panto but he def wasn’t on stage.

Beechwoodspark · 17-01-2019 9:37am

judeboy101 wrote: »

And Aidan cooney seems to have disappeared. Jesus its like 1984 on that show. Colleagues disappear overnight and they pretend they don't exist.

I noticed that as well. Yer man Cagney and to a lesser extent Alan Hughes seem to run that show and everyone else is disposable.

Would hate to work with either of them.

Jrop · 17-01-2019 9:42am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Yeh. Rory Cowan

Not sure if Alan kavanagh aka al porter was involved in the production/ writing of the panto but he def wasn’t on stage.

Al Porter co wrote the panto, of course he tweeted all about it

Beechwoodspark · 17-01-2019 9:46am

Jrop wrote: »

Al Porter co wrote the panto, of course he tweeted all about it

Any link?

Can’t see any tweets on his account about it.

The last seems to be from 3/4/18 when he made a statement about a disastrous attempt to relaunch himself by appearing at the George bar - he was booed off stage.

odyssey06 · 17-01-2019 10:06am

Jrop wrote: »

Al Porter co wrote the panto, of course he tweeted all about it

https://www.thejournal.ie/rory-cowan-replaces-al-porter-panto-3708062-Nov2017/

Interestingly the new promotional photos featuring Rory Cowan show Cowan holding a script saying “Polly & The Beanstalk by Karl Spain”. Spain and Porter were previously listed as the show’s co-producers.

Jrop · 17-01-2019 10:06am

I read it on dailyedge or a similiar website. May not have not been an actual tweet

Beechwoodspark · 17-01-2019 10:09am

odyssey06 wrote: »

https://www.thejournal.ie/rory-cowan-replaces-al-porter-panto-3708062-Nov2017/

Interestingly the new promotional photos featuring Rory Cowan show Cowan holding a script saying “Polly & The Beanstalk by Karl Spain”. Spain and Porter were previously listed as the show’s co-producers.

Ahhh. Interesting. They must have hidden Porter’s involvement as they know it’s bad press and ppl would have boycotted it

Keyzer · 17-01-2019 10:12am

doc11 wrote: »

emma ledden

Works for LinkedIn I believe...

El Tarangu · 17-01-2019 2:14pm

Bredabe wrote: »

Fairly sure that he was in panto this christmas.

OH NO he wasn't!!

The Crowman · 18-01-2019 11:59am

Anyone know who the continuity announcer at the end of this is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzVTUZLP9Yc

AndrewJRenko · 20-01-2019 11:59am

donkeykong5 wrote: »

I thought he was brilliant . He had a true interest in sport and wasn't just pretending to like the others.

My own view might have been clouded by my own almost total lack of interest in sport. He just seemed like gammon to me, trying to butt in with standard gammon opinions on every news discussion.

Water John · 20-01-2019 1:28pm

Renko, great insight, it really added to my day.

blueberrypie · 21-01-2019 11:45am

I just remember Aidan Cooney asked to do a fitness piece for Ireland Am, where he was to log his sessions in his quest to lose weight and engage in exercise.
He tried it and in the end he gave up and wrote a fantasy piece about what a b**ch his female PT was.

In fairness he walked the Dublin Marathon in 2006 for charity 7hrs+

LimeFruitGum · 23-01-2019 7:17am

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Clodagh Mc Kenna seemed to disappeared off the teli .Well until today when she popped up on Sunday Brunch and my god was she annoying .

I went to “Clodagh’s Kitchen” in Arnotts once and it was ****e. Service was indifferent and I remember my dessert being incredibly dry, even with cream. She always seemed more about The Brand than the actual food.

This reminded me of a recent interview of hers in the Times. She’s actually moved to London and living with a guy whose family owns the castle used in Downton Abbey. So there ya go

sligojoek · 23-01-2019 11:54am

She's on the radio with Sean O Rourke right now. Sounds like a right dose.

blueberrypie · 09-02-2019 2:11pm

Clodagh McKenna was on the Ray Darcy tv show last week with her partner.
Pat O Mahony (off the rails fame) has a show on Newstalk -Saturday mornings

The Crowman · 13-04-2019 6:41pm

Who was that Irish stand up comedian who used to do terrible novelty songs and was big for a while in the early to mid 80's? Looked like the lovechild of Art Garfunkel and Marty Feldman, mad staring eyes and balding curly hair. There was something weird about his teeth as well.

RabbleRouser2k · 13-04-2019 6:48pm

The Crowman wrote: »

Who was that Irish stand up comedian who used to do terrible novelty songs and was big for a while in the early to mid 80's? Looked like the lovechild of Art Garfunkel and Marty Feldman, mad staring eyes and balding curly hair. There was something weird about his teeth as well.

Dermot Carmody?

Or was it the English comedian-Jasper Carrott? (He's completely bald now)

Or something McGinnity-the guy who the IRA kidnapped?

The Crowman · 13-04-2019 11:51pm

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Dermot Carmody?

Or was it the English comedian-Jasper Carrott? (He's completely bald now)

Or something McGinnity-the guy who the IRA kidnapped?

No none of them. I think this guy used to have comedy albums out, or tapes. He used to project a kind of smutty image but I think he was fairly middle of the road, probably along the lines of Brendan O Carroll.

apieceofcake · 14-04-2019 12:09am

The Crowman wrote: »

No none of them. I think this guy used to have comedy albums out, or tapes. He used to project a kind of smutty image but I think he was fairly middle of the road, probably along the lines of Brendan O Carroll.

I think you might be thinking of Richie Kavanagh?

The Crowman · 14-04-2019 12:18am

Found him, it was this guy, Paul Malone. I'd seen this on Discogs a few months ago and was trying to remember his name again.

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RabbleRouser2k · 14-04-2019 4:42am

The Crowman wrote: »

Found him, it was this guy, Paul Malone. I'd seen this on Discogs a few months ago and was trying to remember his name again.

Jeeez....there's a guy who has some secrets in the basement...

He's apparently still going...but can someone make him stop?

Radio5 · 15-04-2019 10:26am

Brian Dowling who was a political reporter on RTE. He seems to be gone over the past few months.

donkeykong5 · 15-04-2019 9:20pm

Where is the guy who used to be in tv3 morning show. Did sports coverage. He was great and suddenly disappeared?

judeboy101 · 15-04-2019 11:26pm

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Where is the guy who used to be in tv3 morning show. Did sports coverage. He was great and suddenly disappeared?

Aidan Cooney? He was part of the virginmedia purge

donkeykong5 · 15-04-2019 11:38pm

judeboy101 wrote: »

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Where is the guy who used to be in tv3 morning show. Did sports coverage. He was great and suddenly disappeared?

Aidan Cooney? He was part of the virginmedia purge

Pity hes gone. Unfair

twirlagig · 16-04-2019 12:05am

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Whatever happened to Liam Nolan who I remember was a sports presenter on RTE in the 1970s and early 1980s? I wonder is he still alive?

AFAIK he is still alive. I’ve spoke to him a good few times, a gentleman

septictank · 16-04-2019 1:25am

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Pity hes gone. Unfair

Still has his radio prog on Q102 in the afternoons.

branie2 · 16-04-2019 10:40am

Alan Cantwell, of TV3 (Now Virgin One) News and before that Clare FM

Hangdogroad · 07-06-2019 9:21pm

RTE newsreader Richard Crowley, he was considered something of a sex symbol. Were he and Ann Doyle considered an item at some point or was that just a running joke? I remember a comedy sketch about then on Davis At Large (show that was like the Live Mike but with Derek Davis).

judeboy101 · 07-06-2019 9:54pm

branie2 wrote: »

Alan Cantwell, of TV3 (Now Virgin One) News and before that Clare FM

Another victim of the great virgin media purge

RabbleRouser2k · 09-06-2019 3:46am

judeboy101 wrote: »

Another victim of the great virgin media purge

Nah, he left before then to be PR to that daft bint who literally told him 'write something about education' in a PR document.

I think he was always moving away and coming back to TV3/ Virgin Media.

Probably went into PR or similar. A testy individual, frankly-some times he was decent, other times you got the feeling he didn't want to be there and acted like a jerk.

RabbleRouser2k · 09-06-2019 4:07am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

RTE newsreader Richard Crowley, he was considered something of a sex symbol. Were he and Ann Doyle considered an item at some point or was that just a running joke? I remember a comedy sketch about then on Davis At Large (show that was like the Live Mike but with Derek Davis).

Retired in 2017, I believe.

Radio5 · 18-06-2019 5:24pm

Grainne Seoige back on screen on the Six O'Clock show on Virgin Media.

RabbleRouser2k · 18-06-2019 11:09pm

Radio5 wrote: »

Grainne Seoige back on screen on the Six O'Clock show on Virgin Media.

Muireann's on holiday. At least, she is according to her instagram page.

whiskeyman · 19-06-2019 1:21pm

Radio5 wrote: »

Grainne Seoige back on screen on the Six O'Clock show on Virgin Media.

I thought she left to live in SA?

Hangdogroad · 28-06-2019 9:05am

Who was that guy with the big sideburns and greasy rocker quiff who used to be on Scratch Saturday in the early 90's (or whatever incarnation it was at that point)? I remember not liking him much, came across as full of himself.

branie2 · 28-06-2019 9:06am

His name was Brian Graham

Hangdogroad · 28-06-2019 9:15am

branie2 wrote: »

His name was Brian Graham

Yeah I think thats him.

L1011 · 28-06-2019 11:02pm

Now produces Living with Lucy. The horrors.

RabbleRouser2k · 28-06-2019 11:18pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Yeah I think thats him.

He's married to Mary Kingston.

branie2 · 28-06-2019 11:23pm

I knew that

Irish celebrities who suddenly vanished out of the spotlight

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