After four years fronting the Dublin-based band Guernica in the mid-1980s, Joe Rooney, from Drogheda in County Louth, made his name as an actor and comedian, above all as Father Damo in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, appearing in the episode Old Grey Whistle Theft and a cameo in Flight Into Terror. He starred as Timmy Higgins in the RTÉ comedy Killinaskully across its five series, writing on the…
