Legendary Irish comedian Jon Kenny dies, aged 66
The Limerick native’s wife, Margy, confirmed the sad news on Saturday morning
Jon Kenny, the famous Irish comedian, has died at the age of 66.
The Limerick native’s wife, Margy, confirmed the sad news to Limerick Live on Saturday morning.
Kenny was best known as one half of comedy duo D’Unbelievables alongside Pat Shortt, but was also a poet and a talented actor on stage and screen, having appeared in the Banshees of Inisheerin, Angela’s Ashes and in a number of memorable cameos in Father Ted.
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The comic had experienced a number of health battles in recent years, having revealed earlier this year that he was undergoing chemotherapy after cancer was detected on his left lung.
Kenny was successfully treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the height of the D’Unbelievables fame in 2000 and was also diagnosed with heart failure during his chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Speaking on the Oliver Callan show on RTÉ earlier this year, he said: “I was diagnosed… the cancer came back. I had it there again. I had it about three years ago, four years ago so I had some operation to remove some of my left lung and that was good. Good luck to that.
“But didn’t the fecker come back again on my left lung again (last year). I’ve been lucky now because my chemo is working so I’ve been grand.
“But just in the middle of it all then, just for the craic of it, you know when you’re getting on with things and after I had my second chemo, didn’t I get told I had heart failure. Just to throw that in the mix like… a nice little cocktail of things to be getting on with.”
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