BRAVEHEART actor Liam Carney will make his soap return this week on Red Rock - and he wants to "knock Fair City off their perch".



"That's why I knew he probably wanted to shoot me when I gave up the Post Office! A spin-off from Bracken — a short-lived RTÉ drama itself spun off from The Riordans — Glenroe was broadcast, generally from September to May, each Sunday night at 8:30 pm.

Legendary Irish actor Liam Carney is set to make his TV return, after joining TV3’s new soap.



"Those difficulties obviously weren't helped by the fact that after Carney got his first high-profile TV gig, in Glenroe, he had to give up his job as a bouncer in Kentucky Fried Chicken on the corner of Abbey Street, because "no one would take seriously a fella from the telly!



He has beeb acting for over 35 years and has played in all Dublin theatres; most recently in the Abbey Theatre with '2 Pints' by Roddy Doyle which has toured Ireland UK and USA to packed houses and rave reviews.

Carney, Liam Colgan, Eileen (- 2014) Description The cast from the RTÉ Television drama series 'Glenroe', photographed on set in Ardmore Studios, Bray, County Wicklow, in April 1990. "Yet I stayed there six years and whatever about the amount of drinking done in this [acting] business, man, in the f**king Post Office job, you were in work at10 and in the pub by 11!








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