Sunday 19 September, 2021
As Father Ted turns 25, we’re taking the opportunity to share a TheJournal.ie video featuring memories from two of Dermot Morgan’s collaborators.
Take a seat and remember Ireland’s favourite fictional priest.
Ted writer Graham Linehan made the announcement on Twitter earlier today.
20 years on from his untimely death, we sat down with Barry Devlin and Morgan’s Scrap Saturday co-creator Gerry Stembridge.
The much-loved comedian died 20 years ago – we spoke to his former collaborators Gerry Stembridge and Barry Devlin.
It’s all in aid of the Irish Heart foundation.
Graham Linehan said it made him “well up”, so you know it’s good.
That would be an ecumenical matter.
Some of Morgan’s comedy still remains remarkably topical – 17 years after his death.
Take this lump of sugar baby you know you want it.
Did the statue to ‘yer man in Fairview ever get his head glued back on? Where is ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’ these days?… And what on Earth is ‘Nightmare on Duck Street’?
As the Students get set for a big game against Pat’s tonight, we look back on some of their most memorable moments.
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The great comedian died 15 years ago today, and that money was just resting in his account.
‘Lots of young fellas in shorts.’
The family of the late Father Ted actor launched the Irish Heart Foundation’s Heart Month September campaign later today.
Brothers Rob, Don and Ben Morgan – who lost their father to a heart attack 14 years ago – are urging people to avail of free blood pressure checks offered by the Irish Heart Foundation over September.
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It’s Father Ted’s 60th birthday today. Even if he was still around, he probably couldn’t have been any more on-the-button.
