Risteárd Cooper

And, you know, everyone was watching the games.

Everyone was, everyone was, you know, tuned into it.

So they knew what we were referring to.

And I mean, even the whole thing of okey-doke, I mean, I'd be walking down the street and people say okey-doke, you know, I mean, it was, that was, you know, although it wasn't, it wasn't, I was, I was wrecked.

I was, I was in obviously apres match, but just before that, most people don't realize or remember it, but I was in,

Glenn Rowe.

And if I got any recognition for Bill O'Hurley, the main recognition I got was from playing Marty O'Sullivan in Glenn Rowe, a detective.

And I was on the trail of Dick Moran, who was suspected of committing arson on his business for insurance purposes.

And I found his spectacles in the rubble.

So, but I was recognised everywhere I went in Ireland from that, much more so than anything I did in Appering Lodge.

Well, I do remember Ian McKellen, the famous actor, saying that he obviously had been in everything and had won all of these awards.

And his mother said, oh, yeah, used to say to her friends, I don't know, he's an actor.

And then he got into Coronation Street.

Right.

And then she said, told everybody, my son's in Corrie, you know, my son is in Corrie.

He stopped that Shakespeare nonsense.

In terms of the new solo show, right, you are out on your own here now, out of his head.

Everybody, of course, wants to see the old characters, right?

It's like, you know, you go to see your favourite band, play us the hits, please.

Yeah.