Miscellaneous
Rory Cowan is of course one of the stars of the hit BBC sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys. He was born in Dublin and started out working for EMI Ireland, where he eventually became their marketing manager. He subsequently went on to be a publicist for the then little-known comedian Brendan O’ Carroll. Years later, when an actor stepped down at the eleventh hour in one of Brendan’s stage shows, Rory reluctantly took on the role and the rest is history. That stage show was of course Mrs Brown’s Boys which later became the hugely successful sitcom. The TV series started in 2012 and instantly became a ratings winner. The show has won a raft of awards including a National Television Award and a BAFTA and has also become a big hit internationally. Rory even made it onto the big screen with the spin-off movie, which topped the box office in both Britain and Ireland. Rory left the show a few years back and has since become a narrator for Irish Googlebox and is currently starring in the soap opera Fair City. When I met up with Rory to do the interview we chatted about; what it was like to be a young gay man in Dublin in the 70s & 80s his hilarious coming out to his friends story. why it was so hard to make gay relationships work the discrimination gay couples faced because of their lack of legal rights. how his mother reacted when he came out and lots of other things also. Follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @imcomingoutpod Follow Rory on Twitter @1rorycowan www.rorycowanblog.com