Irish celebrities who suddenly vanished out of the spotlight

Last I heard of him ^^^
From the Indo Jan 1920
Fr Ted star Gerard McSorley appears in court after row at Donegal housing shelter
Gerard McSorley played Fr Todd Unctious in Father Ted.

January 17 2020 06:58 PM
Fr Ted actor Gerard McSorley has appeared in court again after trying to enter sheltered accommodation which he had been evicted from.

McSorley (70) appeared at Letterkenny District Court where he was charged with threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour.

The court heard that on November 11 last he arrived at Trinity Court sheltered accommodation in Newtowncunningham.

Mr McSorley had just been evicted from the premises some time earlier and had been told by staff that he was not welcome there again.

Staff at the centre said they would provide the actor with the money for a taxi to take him to his previous home in Gaoth Dobhair in West Donegal.

However, Garda Sgt Gerard Dalton told the court that Mr McSorley said that under no circumstances would he be returning to Gaoth Dobhair.

Gardai were called and Mr McSorley began to raise his voice and was arrested and brought to Letterkenny Garda station.

Mr McSorley's solicitor, Mr Kieran O'Gorman said that his client was very apologetic for what had happened.

Judge Paul Kelly asked Mr O'Gorman if the actor had now found accommodation and was told he has.

Judge Kelly added: "Tensions were a bit high on the night so I will apply the Probation Act."


Although originally from Omagh, McSorley has lived in Co Donegal for many years.

He has starred in a number of films including Veronica Guerin, Braveheart, Michael Collins, Angela's Ashes and the infamous Fr Ted series, where he played Fr Todd Unctious.

ShamNNspace wrote: »

Last I heard of him ^^^
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Poor fella couldn't pay a 150 euro fine, and that was before the pandemic.

Is that Damo and Ivor twerp gone for good?

Andy Quirke, aka a guy who was horribly unfunny, but his dad was loaded-so it didn't matter?

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Presume he's still going but I think his profile peaked sometime circa mid 00s.

That reminds me, dont hear much about Ronan Tynan these days, the Singing Doctor as he was known when he first emerged in the early 90s. He was doing well enough for himself in the States in recent years but he got in hot water about a fairy innocuous jokey remark about elderly Jewish ladies.

He sang at George Bush Sr's funeral. Apparently makes a lot of appearances on the EWTN network.

He recovered after the bru-ha-ha. But admits the 'internet won't let him forget'.

(Fair warning-article's written by Niamh Horan).

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/someone-tried-to-run-me-over-with-an-suv-says-tenor-ronan-tynan-38720653.html

I see Jonathan Rhys Meyers is back working, lot of "in post production movie" credits after a gap of a couple of years.
They seem to be mostly B movie fare so maybe not back in the spotlight again just yet
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001667/?ref_=tt_cl_t1

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Technically not the 'richest' member of the cast. The Pool hall manager, aka the guy who gives them a place to practise and work on their act, is probably the most financially successful member of the cast.
He wrote the theme tune for Spongebob Squarepants. With royalties, and the show going into repeats, he's probably raking it in.

That's mad. Is he Irish?

Looks like the Commitments was his only acting gig. How do you end up going from the Commitments to writing Spongebob?

I went to school with Ronan, glad to hear he's doing well. Didn't deserve the abuse he got in NY.

Had to google them.

I vaguely remember them... but I may have them mixed up with some other 'band'. (Everyone and their cousin were trying to be in a 'band' in the 90s, and the 00s, and even fairly recently. ).

They had a documentary? It gets reviewed here. I get the feeling one or two of em were lying about their age. One was saying she was 27, but she was married with 2 kids.

Wasnt there some controversy over them - can’t remember the entire story. something about Hector (I think?) making insulting comments about their name in Reynards one night and Ray shah and him kicked off

Funnily enough, no. They were a bit too... 'rough' for the likes of Louis.

I'd doubt that. Ray (according to google) wasn't on Big Brother until 2004. I'd say Back alley were long gone by then. Probably some other girl band caused a fight.

Louis would just copy and paste 'stunts' to get his acts in the paper. Like one time, he tried to start a 'Samantha Mumba had a boob job' similar to Britney Spears and her boob job news making headline (didn't work, I think it got a tiny column in the Sunday World-didn't even make the entertainment section).

Another time (and I only learned this from a Bianca Luykx interview with Peter Andre) Louis planted a story that Stephen Gately from Boyzone was dating/engaged to another Louis Walsh act, Kerri Ann. (Kerri Ann was working as Peter Andre's hairdresser during his post 'I'm a Celeb', romancing Jordan aka Katie Price 'revival'). Obviously, that never happened either.

Was googling 'girl-bands'... might have been Saffyre that had the kerfuffle? (God, there were so many girl bands).

Yeah, but Louis tended not to work with anyone over 21. He liked his acts to be 'vanilla', and he couldn't market this kind of band. He tried to sign up Bellefire, but they flopped and he blamed the record label.

Pat O' Mahony. He was everywhere on Irish TV back in the early 90s.

Kara Hanahoe.

Wasn't Pat on the Irish First Dates? It was in 2019, I think.

Fergus the astrologer, once a mainstay of RTE daytime TV.