![]() Pakie O'Callaghan and Frank Twomey in the jacuzzi of the Metropole Hotel, to promote Santa Ponsa or Bust. Twomey would later star alongside the object of his pastiche in RTÉ's 2020 advice show Agony OAPs. His role as O'Rourke, the 'mammy' figure of the Celtic Tiger-era Fianna Fáil governments sent up by Bull Island, kept him in the national spotlight on its 1999-2001 RTÉ run, with the character making guest appearances elsewhere thereafter. Twomey maintained a long career after filming wrapped on Bosco, not least with a recurring voice role on RTÉ's Liveline show, as part of its weekly 'Funny Fridays' segment. It meant that I was careful and I was very discrete because I had a government job".įrank Twomey (left) as Mary O'Rourke, and Alan Shortt as Bertie Ahern, on the set of Bull Island's 2000 Christmas special, Dinner with the Blairs. ![]() We're talking the '80s, and it had yet to be legalised, let alone same-sex marriage." I was freaked out about it because it was a different era. "They knew," he told rte.ie in a 2020 interview. He came in to see me in studio a few years back.Īr dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis /rhnj2UcUfX- Neil Prendeville December 11, 2023Īn openly gay man, Twomey's work on Bosco came with its own considerations in a more conservative era of Irish society and politics. Very very sad to hear about the passing of Frank Twomey, my former Panto stablemate, this morning.įrank was a super actor, very underrated, and had a wicked sense of humor. Prendeville also paid tribute to a man with whom he had acted with in the Everyman panto: “Frank was a super actor, very underrated, and had a wicked sense of humour.” ![]() O’Callaghan said: “He took it in good spirits but you would know that he would probably prefer if peoples’ memories were a bit shorter because it did, as these things do, impact on the remaining part of his career which was a lot more successful than many people realise.”Ĭinderella's two ugly sisters, Frank Twomey and Eoin Hally, arrive on stage on a motorbike in the panto, Cinderella, at the Everyman Palace Theatre, in 2005. He recalled how as they often travelled on trains, people would approach Mr Twomey and ask him if he was guy who presented Bosco, and say, ‘You reared my young fella’. “He had that capacity to elevate people’s mood. “Every time you would meet him, you would leave with a bounce in your step,” he told the Neil Prendeville Show on RedFM. O’Callaghan described working with him as “a real privilege”. “It was obvious for the last week or so that he wasn’t going to pull through this, but he battled as he always would in every aspect of his life, so bravely, but in the end he had to succumb to this very serious, lung disease that he had contracted,” he said. ![]() Twomey's great friend and long-time collaborator, Pakie O’Callaghan, said he had visited him the night before his death to say goodbye. He used to tell me a lot of stories, and he was very good at acting poems as well. Sometimes, he was so funny, that he didn't even know he was being funny himself, and you'd have to say 'Frank, that was very funny!' Speaking to The Echo in 2020, Bosco reflected fondly on Twomey's company, wit and creativity:
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