RTE viewers in stitches at Tommy Tiernan’s Roddy Doyle story

RTE viewers were in stitches at a story that Tommy Tiernan told about Roddy Doyle.

Tiernan was speaking on his Saturday night RTE show with actor Liam Cunningham about his profession and dealing with fame.

Liam Cunningham was explaining why he enjoys living in Ireland when Tommy spoke about being recognised by people.

Tommy Tiernan said: “To be well know in Ireland to me is a blessing.

“I sometimes think I’m Ray D’Arcy.

“It’s local, if you saw Ray even if you didn’t know him, you’d say hello Ray.

“I get the same type of thing.

“Roddy Doyle says a funny story about it during the time of the Snapper.

“A man said to him, ‘you come over here, are you Roddy Doyle?’

“Roddy responded ‘yeah’ and the man said ‘so what’.”

One posted on Twitter: “This Roddy Doyle story made me laugh out loud.”

Another added: “Ah yeah, that was bloody brilliant! Magic stuff.”

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While one more said: “The Roddy Doyle bit!”

Viewers were also impressed with actor Liam Cunningham.

Liam is most recognised for his role as Davos Seaworth in the popular TV show Game of Thrones.

Dubliner Liam spoke on how he started out in acting and had worked with the ESB before it.

He said: “I started acting as a distraction to take me away from a job that I was bored with.

“And when I started doing it I fell in love with it unexpectedly.”

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Liam spoke about the fame that comes with being on a show such as Game Of Thrones.

He said: “It’s very strange when you go to a country you have never been in before and you go into a pub and you have to run out of it. I have had that in Australia.

“We were filming in Spain and they had to fly security in because the fans were breaking into the hotel and kicking the doors in trying to get at you it’s very strange.”

Cunningham revealed that he was star struck when he got to work with legendary actor Sean Connery.

He said: “I remember being star-struck with Sean Connery. I worked with Connery and that was weird the first day.

“It was in a very mediocre movie called First Knight and he played King Arthur. He was wonderful.”

Liam Cunningham attending the Game of Thrones Premiere, held at Waterfront Hall, Belfast. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo.

Liam went into detail on how he views acting, he added: “”I play dress up and I get paid which is one of the reasons I really appreciate it. I get paid to do what kids do when they’re five – play dress up.

“So the luxury of someone giving you a pay packet to do that you have a heavy responsibility to justify the stupidity of that.

“I have done jobs that I am really proud of that have been culturally important and I don’t treat that lightly but it is ridiculous what I do for a living I was a lot more useful when I had a box of tools.”

What a great interview with Liam Cunningham. Couldn’t help but grin during that. A good laugh also. You’d swear the boys knew each other for years, the head on them.”