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When you grow up in a border area of Ireland, people are very wary and cagy and keep their head down at all times. Don't speak unless it's absolutely essential, and don't give anything away.Collection: Ardal
Father Ted' was written by Irish people, so that was fine, but around the time we were shooting it 'EastEnders' went to Ireland and represented it as this terribly backward society where people were going around with one eye and drunk.Collection: Ardal
It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton - stand out with their strong regional accents.Collection: Ardal
People love authenticity in comedy and, coming from a region, you get a very strong sense of place. They can place you straight away, so they can relax.Collection: Ardal
Carrickmacross always had a border mentality. Smuggling would have been a big thing there in the past; there would have been spillover from the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Collection: Ardal
When I was growing up, you never knew whether people were being serious or not. There was a lot of nodding and winking.Collection: Ardal
Getting up in front of the toughest crowds, you know, playing pubs in South Armagh - where people didn't necessarily even know what stand-up comedy was - you had to force yourself to do it. It went against every instinct in your body, but you did it anyway.Collection: Ardal
In terms of being typecast, if you do something like Father Ted that infiltrates the public's imagination to the extent that it did, I think realistically you're not going to be asked to do something radically different from that very often. But it's not a problem.Collection: Ardal
I get up every morning the same as everyone else, and scratch my head and just get on with the job. Whatever that job may be.Collection: Ardal
Mum was a teacher before I was born, but never worked after she had kids. She was too busy looking after us and making kedgeree.Collection: Ardal
We didn't have an awful lot of space. There were six of us born within the space of seven or eight years - I was third. I remember sharing a room with one or other of my brothers - at one point we had three single beds in one room.Collection: Ardal
As a comic, you are trying to please people in some way - to make them laugh.Collection: Ardal
My father was driven, active and always busy. We didn't see that much of him, although he never went far away or stayed overnight anywhere.Collection: Ardal