Episode 80 - Phil Chevron
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Phil Chevron was a musician and song writer with The Pogues and The Radiators From Space
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Episode 79 - Tara Flynn
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Tara Flynn is an Irish actress and writer. She came to international attention with her satirical sketches "Racist B&B" which won her Satirist of The Year at the Swift Satire Festival and "Armagayddon" co-written with Kevin McGahern. She has written two satirical books Your Grand; The Irish Woman's Secret Guide To Life and Giving Out Yards;the Art Of Complaint Irish Style. She was a founder member of the comedy trio The Nualas and is a core member of The Dublin Comedy Improv. Tara also had roles in Irish Pictorial Weekly, Line Of Duty, Moone Boy, Stewart Lee's Comedy...
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Peter Sheridan
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
A chat with director, writer and actor Peter Sheridan
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Episode 77 Joe Rooney Live At Vicar St
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
This is me, Joe Rooney, live at Vicar street performing my stand up in 2006. It was recorded for a CD with the News Of The World newspaper. I had forgotten quite a lot of this material actually and it is very Irish in it's references but I think that was a conscious decision because it was going out to an Irish audience only. My accent is slightly different to how I speak now; it's more.....Irish. Hope you enjoy it.
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episode 76 Aidan Gillen
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Aidan Gillen is best known for his role as Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in Game Of Thrones, Tommy Carcetti in The Wire (both HBO series), CIA operative Bill Wilson in The Dark Knight Rises, Stuart Alan Jones in the Channel 4 series Queer As Folk and John Boy in the RTE Television series Love/Hate. I met Aidan at a Q&A with ex Teardrop Explodes singer Julian Cope and he kindly agreed to have a chat on my podcast. However when we met he reminded me I had met him briefly before many years ago. Indeed he had to leave his own house for a few hours partly because of me. We had a long chat...
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Episode 75 - Aisling O'Neill
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Aisling O'Neill is perhaps best known for her role as Carol in RTE’s long-running and most popular soap FAIR CITY. I recently acted with her as she played the role of Suzanne in John B.Keane's THE CHASTITUTE directed by Michael Scott at The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. She has also recently acted in Graham Cantwell's award-winning short film LILY and Kavaleer Production's live action/animated short CITY OF ROSES, directed by Andrew Kavanagh (winner - Director's Choice Award at the Boston Irish Film Festival 2016). I also chatted to fellow Chastitute actors Mark O' Regan and Andrew Kenny and...
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Episode 74 - Seskin Lane
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Eoin Ryan Anthony is a singer song writer from Thurles who's band are called Seskin Lane. Their album History Of Things To Come is full of well crafted and beautifully played songs topped with Eoin's sweet melodic voice. We met up in The Central Hotel in Dublin, which is becoming my unofficial studio, for a chat about music, cows giving birth and not remembering peoples names. I also have a chat with Joan from the venue near Limavady called The Keady Clachan about how this venue on the side of a mountain has become so popular with musicians around the world. Then I chat with Don Piper (who...
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Episode 73 - Brent Pope
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Brent Pope is a New Zealand rugby analyst on RTE television, rugby journalist, charity worker, children's book author, founder of Outside in Art Gallery in Dublin Ireland and owner of POPE shirts. He was born, raised and spent his rugby playing career in New Zealand, but has lived and worked in Ireland for most of his broadcasting career. Brent was selected in the original 1987 New Zealand Rugby World Cup training squad, but had to withdraw a week before the tournament began due to a serious elbow injury in the final series of All Black trials. He then came back after injury to be nominated as...
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Episode 72 - Various artists
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Ryan McMullan is Ed Sheeran's opening act for his 2017 summer tour. He is a singer songwriter with immense stage presence and songwriting skills. Deni Bonet is a fiddle player who has played with Cyndi Lauper, REM, Mundy and Sarah McLachlan. Her latest album Bright Shiny Objects has entered the US charts and is getting airplay all over Europe. It's her first completely instrumental album. Johnny Cronin is from the band Cronin. Their latest album The First Kiss Of Love is a big dramatic burning tower of love songs. They are also now officially Shane MacGowan's backing band. Mik Artistik is a...
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Episode 71 - Mary Coughlan
Pod-a-Rooney: the Joe Rooney podcast
Mary Coughlan is an Irish jazz and folk singer best known for her rendition of Love Will Tear Us Apart, The Magdalen Laundry and I Want To Be Seduced. Her career kicked off at the age of thirty with the release of the independently produced and financed album Tired and Emotional. She suddenly became a massive star and her career sky rocketed from there but due to severe mismanagement she lost her house, her car and her record deal with WEA and began to drink heavily. Her drinking was also connected to her abuse by two family members at a young age which led a suicide attempt at the age of 15...
info_outlineAlison Spittle was a contestant in one of those comedy talent contests I hosted that we all enter when we are starting out but bear no resemblance to what real life comedy performing is like. It was called The Toilet Duck Awards, a reference to Father Ted, and had comedians go head to head doing 3 minutes each; based on audience applause one of them went through to the next round. I can't remember who won and Alison was eliminated in the first round which goes to show how pointless these competitions are. Three minutes would never be enough for Alison as she paints a hilarious picture of the struggles of feeling like an outsider growing up in Mullingar. She has an ability to make you feel empathy and laugh at the same time. She is someone who has fallen in love with the art of performing stand up as opposed to those who see it as a stepping stone to some other career. She just has to open her mouth and the stories come thick and fast.