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He appeared in such popular shows as Coronation Street, Between the Lines, 1990, Children of the North and Ballykissangel, and won an Irish Film and Television Academy Award for best leading performance for his role in the 1998 miniseries Amongst Women.
Jan 28, 2000 · Actor and star of the hit TV series Ballykissangel, Tony Doyle, has died suddenly. The award-winning actor played the part of likeable rogue Brian Quigley in the BBC Northern Ireland drama....
Colleagues and friends of the Co Roscommon-born actor, Tony Doyle (58), have paid tribute to the performer who died suddenly in a London hospital early yesterday morning.
Brian Quigley, Doyle's Ballykissangel character, was written out of the show in the first episode of the final series where Quigley fakes his own suicide (he supposedly drowned himself) and flees to Brazil. The Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing was launched by the BBC following his death.
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Feb 13, 2016 · In fact during the production of Ballykissangel, Tony Doyle who played the village’s own version of Donald Trump, Brian Quigley, died in 2001 and had to be written out of the final series of the show. Birdy Sweeney, who portrayed Eamon Byrne, passed away and thus left the show in the fifth series.
Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community.
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Nov 6, 2020 · Hit BBC show Ballykissangel ran for six series and turned some of the cast into huge stars - here's what they're doing now
