Tributes flood in for TV ‘institution’ Frank Kelly

The actor Frank Kelly, best known for playing the hard- drinking and foul-mouthed priest Father Jack in the TV comedy Father Ted, has died at the age of 77.
Tributes flood in for TV ‘institution’ Frank Kelly
Frank Kelly (right) as Father Jack with the Father Ted cast.

Kelly was a veteran of stage and screen for 60 years, including appearances on RTÉ’s satirical show Hall’s Pictorial Weekly and as Father Jack Hackett on the Channel 4 sitcom from 1995 to 1998.

Kelly passed away exactly 18 years after the death of his Father Ted co-star Dermot Morgan, who also died on a Sunday.

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