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- Frank Twomey was born in 1950 in Cork, Ireland. He was an actor and producer, known for The Boys & Girl from County Clare (2003), Heartstrings (2014) and The Young Offenders (2018). He died on December 11, 2023 in Ireland.
- The role for which he will be most fondly remembered by a generation will be his time alongside Irish children's television icon Bosco, accompanying the ever-inquisitive puppet through the eponymously-titled afternoon show's original 1980s run, and remaining visible as the repeats of the beloved show ran in the afternoons until 1998.
- He featured on the advice show Agony OAPs, with retired footballer Pat Spillane and retired politician Mary O'Rourke, whom he impersonated on Bull Island.
- Twomey went on to appear on Bull Island, particularly as Mary O'Rourke, the then Minister for Public Enterprise.
- He famously satirised then-Public Enterprise Minister Mary O'Rourke on RTÉ's Bull Island; appeared on trailblazing RTÉ comedy Nighthawks; and a long-time stint as a dame of The Everyman's annual Christmas pantomime endeared him to generations of families in his native city Cork.
- A veteran of stage and screen, he played many roles over the course of a long and illustrious career, spanning from the 1980s to the beginning of the 2020s.
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