Joe Rooney

Joe Rooney

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Oddity
Title: Oddity
Released: March 8, 2024
Type: Movie
Follows a blind medium who uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.
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Dublin Crust
Title: Dublin Crust
Character: Terrence
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A decade after punk band Crust split, the band members lives have fallen apart. Drummer Bonehead has just been released from prison and sets about reforming the band for one last show.
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Chicken Out
Title: Chicken Out
Character: Mick
Released: November 12, 2021
Type: Movie
A cash-strapped dad gets a job as the mascot of a chicken takeaway to make ends meet for his young family. They need to fly the nest of his overbearing mother, but can the plucky dad make it even to his first payday, dressed as a giant chicken?
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Title: Callan Kicks The Year
Released: December 30, 2020
Type: TV
Joining Oliver Callan in kicking the years
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Poster Boys
Title: Poster Boys
Released: July 7, 2020
Type: Movie
When dysfunctional adult Al Clancy mistakenly agrees to mind his smart-ass 10-year-old nephew Karl for a week, his job and home are placed in jeopardy. In a bold bid to save Al’s job, they steal his mam’s camper van, become best friends, and embark on a criss cross adventure, putting up posters all over Ireland. When things go wrong and the lads get cranky, one of them realises that the other one needs to grow up.
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Stephanie
Title: Stephanie
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
John and Stephanie wake at the sound of someone outside. This stranger wants Stephanie dead. Why? We come to learn that Stephanie is not all she seems, harbouring a monstrous secret.
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Wretch
Title: Wretch
Character: Peter Pringle
Released: April 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Under the tutelage of an eccentric hippie restaurateur and her messianic self-help guru, a young man sets out to master the occult magic of Enceladism in an effort to destroy the cancer that's killing his boyfriend.
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Wild Goose Lodge
Title: Wild Goose Lodge
Character: Ribbonman
Released: October 28, 2016
Type: Movie
The historical true story of the Lynch Family, the Irish Ribbonmen and British who occupied the Irish territory in 1816. With the bicentennial of the burning of Wild Goose Lodge and the centennial of Michael Collins and the Rising upcoming, this historical feature is rich in Irish culture and explanation of some interesting history. Shot entirely in Ireland, the production value and cinematography on this film is truly award winning. Logline: The Lynch Family try to defend themselves against the British and their own Irish heritage when their home is broken into by local villagers and a report of the break in leads to the hanging of the culprits by the British magistrate, much to the surprise of the Lynch family and the local Irish neighbors. The local Ribbonmen vow revenge again Lynch, while the town priest tries to maintain peace within the village.
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Dick Dickman, P.I.
Title: Dick Dickman, P.I.
Released: December 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A vanity project by Wexford-based comedian Barry O'Neill, starring and directing and writing. About Ireland's answer to Inspector Clouseau, supported by a cast of Irish stars who were presumably roped into this to help Barry. A bumbling wannabe private detective investigates the mysterious disappearance of a fiddle player much to the irritation of police officers who have been assigned to the case. The private detective finds himself in over his head when evidence points to a Russian mobster.
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Title: Killinaskully
Released: December 30, 2003
Type: TV
details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland
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Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll
Title: Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll
Character: Loco McCann
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Flying Saucer Rock 'n' Roll, is a 12 minute spoof of a 1950s black and white science fiction B-movie. It was first released in 1997 and starred Ardal O'Hanlon. It was written by Mik Duffy and its director Enda Hughes. The title is taken from the 1957 Rockabilly novelty hit record "Flyin' Saucers Rock 'n' Roll" by Billy Lee Riley and His Little Green Men. O'Hanlan's "rendition" of the song, is performed by producer Michael Hughes.
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Title: Father Ted
Character: Father Damien Lennon
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: TV
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
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Into the Abyss
Title: Into the Abyss
Character: Brother
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A young woman comes home to Dublin for Christmas after ten months away. When her family resumes their old hostility, Sandra's only alternative is to return to desperate circumstances in London.
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South
Title: South
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Tom is a young man struggling through his fathers recent passing. After finding a photo of his estranged mother Tom decides to search for the only family he has left.
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Joe Rooney: Live At Vicar Street
Title: Joe Rooney: Live At Vicar Street
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Joe Rooney is probably best known for playing reberl priest Father Damo in Channel 4's Father Ted and Timmy the barfly from the RTE sitcom Killinaskully. But Joe has also toured extensively as a stand up comic receiving rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and Oslo Komedie Kochfest. In his live show Joe has garnered tremendous reactions for his live performances from audiences throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe with his charismatic style and a finale that has to be seen to be believed.