Michael Twomey: ‘One of the great theatre figures in Ireland — he had no equal’

Warm tributes have been paid to theatre giant Michael Twomey — one half of the legendary comedy duo Cha and Miah — who died yesterday aged 84.

Denis McSweeney, chairman of the board of the Everyman Theatre, said Cork and Ireland has lost a cultural giant.

“For over 70 years, Michael ‘bestrode the stage like a colossus’, from a young Hamlet with the Loft, the Cork Shakespearean Company, to Miah in the famous double act, Cha and Miah, and on television in Hall’s Pictorial Weekly,” he said.