Tim McGarry | |
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Occupation(s) | Comedian, actor |
Tim McGarry is an Irish comedian and actor from North Belfast in Northern Ireland. He was educated at St Malachy's College, Belfast.
He is a member of the comedy group Hole In The Wall Gang, and played "Da", a fictional Sinn Féin spokesman (later MLA), in the comedy series Give My Head Peace .
He has also hosted several radio programmes on BBC Radio Ulster, including weekly comedy quiz The Blame Game . For a number of years he provided a monologue played over the ending credits of the weekly politics show, Hearts and Minds, in the guise of a Belfast 'black taxi' driver.
McGarry is a humanist and in 2016 was appointed a patron of Humanists UK and Northern Ireland Humanists, its branch working for a secular state and the promotion of humanism in Northern Ireland. [1]
He is a fan of Cliftonville F.C. and Leeds United F.C. [2]