Joe Rooney

Joseph "Joe" Rooney (born 1 October 1963) is an Irish actor, comedian and singer-songwriter from Drogheda, County Louth.

Rooney had a starring role as Timmy Higgins in the RTÉ television comedy Killinaskully, which ran for five series.

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.

In more recent years Joe has had roles in TV3's Red Rock, CBBC's Roy and the feature films "Monged" and "South".

Other acting roles included Fergus Scully, a roving reporter who speaks in pidgin English and Irish, on the TG4 sketch show Rí Rá.