(11) Where Are They Now


Simon Delaney ('Zonad', 'Batchelor's Walk') is known for his talents as a singer and, fittingly enough, his characters in 'Bachelor's Walk' and 'The Last Furlong' both earned a crust as vocalists. He also released a Christmas single in Ireland in 2003.


Where Are They Now?  

A nostalgic note on which to say goodbye for another month…

TINA KELLEGHER

Who was she?

Sharon Curley, that’s who. The cautionary whale whose three minutes of thrust and tickle with one Mr. Georgie Burgess – the brilliant Pat Laffin – seeded the plotline to the big screen adaptation of ‘The Snapper’. Arguably the funniest instalment of Roddy Doyle’s ‘Barrytown Trilogy’, Sharon, inside a mass of curly-fry ringlets and hoopy earrings, symbolized that most common of  working-class Dublin clichés – the unwanted pregnancy. In her eyes a life sentence, this leads to some trouser-soakingly hilarious voyeurism, as she, with the help of her ‘salt-of-the-earth’ family, slowly, but gradually pushes through each stage of the grieving process - all the way from denial (“It was a Spanish sailor, so it was”) to acceptance (“What if it’s a girl, and it look like Mr. Burgess?”). Classic. And a Golden Globe nominated classic at that.  

Memorable qoutes:

Kay Curley:  “It's a terrible shock...”
Dessie Curley:  “What is?”
Kay Curley:  “Being married for 25 years, and finding out your husband's a prick.”
Dessie Curley:  [at a pub, after Sharon's delivery] “7 pounds 12 ounces.”
Loner:  “Is that a baby, or a turkey?”
Dessie Curley:  “A baby!”
Loner:  “That's a good-sized baby. “
Dessie Curley:  “Right.”
Loner:  “Small turkey, though.”

And now?

Tina, you’ll be happy to hear, is still in the game. A mother of two young boys (Michael and Brian) she now happily juggles family life with successful, if only occasional stints on-screen. A one-time regular on ‘Ballykissangel’ alongside the likes of Colin Farrel and Don Wycherley, she went on to star in RTE’s ‘The Clinic’, before easing off the throttle to focus on motherhood. Now living in the rural surrounds of Mullingar, co. Westmeath, Tina is again back in the saddle having landed a plum role in screwball Irish comedy, ‘Happy Ever Afters’.

Memory lane via YouTube. Take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsk0Le02wX0



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