The comedy legend is known for some of the country’s funniest moments, from starring alongside Pat Short in D'Unbelievables to starring in The Banshees of Inisherin
The comedy legend died in Galway Clinic on Friday, 16 November and is best known as one half of D'Unbelievables with fellow comedian Pat Shortt.
Read more: See inside D’Unbelievables star Jon Kenny’s idyllic home in a 20 acre forest in the Limerick countryside Earlier this week, The Schoolyard Theatre in Charleville in Cork announced that they had cancelled an event which Jon was scheduled to perform at on Saturday.The disease came back in 2020, which required him to have significant surgery on his lungs.“I got cancer at the beginning of 2000 and I had no choice but to take a step back,” he said.
However, he found out in 2020 that his cancer returned and he needed serious surgery on his left lung. He shared: “I’ve been lucky because my chemo is working, so I’ve been grand. But then in the middle of it all, just for the craic when I was just getting on with things and I had my second chemo, then I had heart failure - just to throw that in the mix. A nice little cocktail of things”“My heart function is back up again, so there’ll be no possibility of me keeling over at my next three outings,” he revealed.
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