Father Ted star and comedian Jon Kenny dies aged 66

Irish histrion and comedian Jon Kenny has died aged 66.

He was champion known for his roles successful Father Ted, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Van, and Angela’s Ashes.

Kenny was besides 1 fractional of the comedy duo D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt.

His wife, Margie, confirmed to the Limerick Leader that helium sadly died connected Friday evening successful Galway Clinic.

He had been receiving attraction for crab and bosom failure.

Paying tribute to the performer, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Simon Harris described Kenny arsenic idiosyncratic who had an ‘ability, that precise fewer radical possess, to marque his audiences ace up laughing with a glimpse oregon a azygous word’.

‘Behind that seemingly effortless endowment to joke, determination was a talented performer and an highly heavy thinker,’ Harris added.

‘Jon was an absorbing and thoughtful person; helium had immoderate stunning melodramatic performances connected signifier and connected surface and the state is inactive successful stitches from the magic that was D’Unbelievables.’

Tánaiste (deputy Prime Minister) Micheál Martin besides said: ‘Deeply saddened astatine the passing of Jon Kenny.

‘Through the D’Unbelievables and his appearances connected signifier and connected screen, Jon made america smile. He was an entertainer to his core.’

He hailed Kenny arsenic ‘one of our astir iconic actors and comedians’.

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