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AH LIFE. IF you don’t laugh, you’ll cry, right?
Well, we don’t want any crying around these parts, so we’ve rounded up seven of the best up and coming Irish comedians for you to watch out for.
Whether they’re standups, masters of the comedic tweets or YouTube superstars, check out their work below.
You’ll laugh. Oh, how you’ll laugh.
Eleanor Tiernan has supported Tommy Tiernan, Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter, Tig Notaro, Neil Delamere, Jason Byrne, Ardal O’Hanlon, and Pantibliss – so you know she’s good.
She describes her style of comedy as ‘Free range, organic, no added preservatives. Dead pan. I’m aiming for opium but it’s probably low grade heroin.’
So there you have it.
Conor writes and acts as well as doing stand up and he’s working on a new show for the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe festivals called, ‘Conor O’Toole: A Retrospective 1995-2015.’
He’s also written and acted in a number of films, one of which won a Best Writing award.
Fresh from winning the Best Female TV Comedian at the 2014 British Comedy Awards (yup, she’s still Irish though), Aisling Bea, writer, actor, comedian and all-round person, is flying high with three Edinburgh Festival previews coming up as well as doing lots of stand up and TV appearances on shows like QI, Eight of Ten Cats, and Live at the Apollo.
These three guys have been on quite the comedic world takeover – recently selling out their sixth Edinburgh festival and returning from a successful Statewide tour with a sold-out show in Dublin.
You may recognise them from their stints on The Savage Eye and The Craig Doyle Show or maybe the clip below will jog your memory.
YouTube comedy star, Sean Connolly, aka The Sonic Screw, tweets and makes videos that delight the nation. He has nearly 9000 subscribers and his videos vary from parodies, to film retellings to inebriated cooking shows.
Each to their own, we say.
Alison has made videos for The Republic of Telly as well as featuring on RTE’s New Comedy Awards.
She’s also written and acted in a few other videos with some other up and coming comedians – you might notice her in the video of another of our entries… keep your eyes peeled.
Born in the States, but here for so long we’ll claim him for one of our own, Damon writes, acts and does stand-up. He’s written for RTE and has appeared on Newstalk, RTE 2FM, Dublin City FM, and Phantom FM.
He splits his time between Dublin and San Francisco, so we’re allowed to hate him, a little.
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Good news for Limerick. A good range of jobs too. This is what the government are busy doing getting businesses to invest in Ireland while the media only want to report ‘scandals’. Good news never makes the headlines unfortunately.
Hopefully it’s not like the fake jobs announcement from Ethicon/Vistakon a few months ago
140 new jobs over the next three years!! I won’t pop the champagne just yet.
Sound like good jobs and if every big business added 140 jobs it’d add up pretty fast…. probably not as good as your “work from home” jobs though…
Are these “New” jobs or are they contractors being made permanent?
Red thumb as much as you like but it’s a pertinent question. I’ve heard of a big announcement recently in Limerick for 90 new jobs but the reality was the jobs were already filled by existing contractors
I agree, it’s a valid question to ask. It doesn’t necessarily mean that 140 unemployed people will be filling new positions over 3 years.
That’s very true Shane there really wasn’t any ” new” jobs at all .
Those jobs should really be moved to Dublin
Why
Because he is a troll and there always right
Here, there, everywhere.
Troll.
The cost of locating them in Dublin is too high.
It’s a good news and not a bad news story.
Nice stock image of the place too from the Clare hills.
There is a big movement against IW going on in this country that the media does not wish to report on, Instead they make satire articles of the issue.
People should not return any phising packs to IW, don’t engage with them, don’t hand any info over to them. There is very little they can do to force you to pay. They will be swamped in so much paper it will keep them busy till next xmas
Irish water will find it very easy to make people pay. It may take till next Christmas but you’ll still pay.
You can oppose Irish water but don’t let some poor eejits get in to a mountain of debt by doing so.
How many of these are allocated for job bridge?
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