My money: ‘I got my car on a PCP – so basically I'm renting a rapidly depreciating couch that moves'
The Laois native made his name on the satirical sketch RTÉ show 'Republic of Telly' and its spin-off series 'Bridget & Eamon', in which he and Jennifer Zamparelli played a unhappily married couple living in the Midlands in the 1980s, with their six-to-eight children. The pair then reunited as co-hosts on 2FM's Breakfast Republic, with Keith Walsh.
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