Joe Rooney (born 1 October 1963) is an Irish actor, comedian and
singer-songwriter from Drogheda, County Louth.He is arguably best
known for his acting and in particular for playing Father Damo in the
Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, appearing in the episode "The Old Grey
Whistle Theft". Rooney had a starring role as Timmy Higgins in the
RTÉ television comedy Killinaskully, which ran for five series. Joe
also wrote on the fourth and fifth series of Killinaskully. He
currently hosts the podcast PodaRooney, on which he interviews guests
who are mostly involved in the entertainment industry. Joe has
performed stand-up worldwide, including New York, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong,
Barcelona, Brussels, Moscow, Muscat (Oman), Manama (Bahrain) and
Dubai. He has also performed at Irish festivals in Kansas City
(Missouri), Milwaukee and La Crosse (Wisconsin).Joe presented a
children's summer weekday afternoon series called Jump Around for
RTÉ, which aired as a stand in for The Den when it was rested during
the summer. The series ran from 12 June to 1 September 1995 and
included games, competitions, quizzes and television series and
cartoons such as Widget the World Watcher, The Brady Bunch, Ocean
Girl, Batman: The Animated Series and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
singer-songwriter from Drogheda, County Louth.He is arguably best
known for his acting and in particular for playing Father Damo in the
Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, appearing in the episode "The Old Grey
Whistle Theft". Rooney had a starring role as Timmy Higgins in the
RTÉ television comedy Killinaskully, which ran for five series. Joe
also wrote on the fourth and fifth series of Killinaskully. He
currently hosts the podcast PodaRooney, on which he interviews guests
who are mostly involved in the entertainment industry. Joe has
performed stand-up worldwide, including New York, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong,
Barcelona, Brussels, Moscow, Muscat (Oman), Manama (Bahrain) and
Dubai. He has also performed at Irish festivals in Kansas City
(Missouri), Milwaukee and La Crosse (Wisconsin).Joe presented a
children's summer weekday afternoon series called Jump Around for
RTÉ, which aired as a stand in for The Den when it was rested during
the summer. The series ran from 12 June to 1 September 1995 and
included games, competitions, quizzes and television series and
cartoons such as Widget the World Watcher, The Brady Bunch, Ocean
Girl, Batman: The Animated Series and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
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