Father Ted star Jon Kenny has died at the age of 66 after a battle with cancer. The Limerick native, who was one half of D'Unbelievables alongside Pat Shortt, passed away at Galway Clinic yesterday evening, his wife Margy confirmed.
The much-loved Irish comedian had suffered from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma when he was in his 40s, but had made a recovery.But last March Jon announced that his cancer had returned in 2020.At the time, he said: "I've been very lucky.
I'm sure some people would say I've had bad luck, but I think when you come out the other end of anything, I think I’ve had a lot of good luck as well, everything has worked for me.
I had a double bypass which kind of brilliantly mended me, fixed me up and got me back on the road and then, my cancer came back again about three years ago.