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Irish celebrities who suddenly vanished out of the spotlight

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    #1262
    Jrop
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Jrop


    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


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    #1263
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,346 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    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.


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    #1264
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,284 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    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.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #1265
    Jrop
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Jrop


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


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    #1266
    Beechwoodspark
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    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 :/


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    #1267
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    doc11 wrote: »
    emma ledden

    Works for LinkedIn I believe...


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    #1268
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Bredabe wrote: »
    Fairly sure that he was in panto this christmas.


    OH NO he wasn't!!


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    #1269
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


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

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


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    #1270
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,514 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    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.


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    #1271
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,147 ✭✭✭✭Water John


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


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    #1272
    blueberrypie
    Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭blueberrypie


    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+


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    #1273
    LimeFruitGum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    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 :)


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    #1274
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


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


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    #1275
    blueberrypie
    Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭blueberrypie


    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


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    #1276
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    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.


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    #1277
    RabbleRouser2k
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    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?


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    #1278
    The Crowman
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    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.


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    #1279
    apieceofcake
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭apieceofcake


    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?


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    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    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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    #1281
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,281 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    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?


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    #1282
    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭Radio5


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


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    #1283
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


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


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    #1284
    judeboy101
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    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


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    #1285
    donkeykong5
    Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    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


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    #1286
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    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?

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


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    #1287
    septictank
    Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭septictank


    donkeykong5 wrote: »
    Pity hes gone. Unfair

    Still has his radio prog on Q102 in the afternoons.


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    #1288
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


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


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    #1289
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    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).


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    #1290
    judeboy101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    branie2 wrote: »
    Alan Cantwell, of TV3 (Now Virgin One) News and before that Clare FM

    Another victim of the great virgin media purge


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    #1291
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,281 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    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.


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