Comedy legend Jon Kenny dies aged 66

Taoiseach Simon Harris has led tributes to the comedy legend, who described him as a “gifted performer and an extremely deep thinker”.

According to Limerick Live, Mr Kenny’s wife confirmed that he passed away at Galway Clinic yesterday evening.

From Hospital, in Co Limerick, he was best known as part of the Irish comic duo D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt.

Mr Kenny and Pat Shortt had recently reunited for roles in Oscar-nominated The Banshees of Inisherin alongside Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.

The successful comedy duo toured across Ireland together until 2000 until Kenny was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and released One Hell of a Video, D’Unbelievables, D’Video, D’Telly, D’Mother and D’collection.

In 2020, he was given another cancer diagnosis and had to have part of his lung removed. In recent years he suffered from heart failure and underwent a heart bypass.

Mr Kenny was catapulted into Irish comedy’s big leagues when he starred as Fred Rickwood in Father Ted.

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