Joe Rooney

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Stage photograph of Joe Rooney
Joe Rooney at the Glastonbury Festival, 2019, with the Stephen Frost Improv All Stars

Joseph "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

Flight into Terror". 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 hosts the podcast PodaRooney, on which he interviewed guests who are mostly involved in the entertainment industry. Joe 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 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

.

In more recent years Joe has had roles in TV3's Red Rock, CBBC's Roy and the feature films "Monged" and "South". He had a starring role in the feature film Wretch (2018) shot in Kansas City by first time writer/director Mathew Dunehoo. He starred alongside Moe Dunford in the short film Stephanie (2018) directed by Fergal Costello. He was also involved in the podcasting world with "Podarooney" and "Talking Ted", a Father Ted podcast from the HeadStuff Podcast Network.

Other acting roles included Fergus Scully, a roving reporter who speaks in

TV3 comedy travel series.[1]

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