Mick Lally - Mick or Miley, he was great

THOUGH he would want most of his work to be remembered Mick Lally will live on in the nation’s imagination as Miley Byrne, a pivotal character in the loved classic of Irish television, Glenroe.

Even before he became Miley, a wonderful representation of a befuddled but well-intentioned Irish type, Lally had established himself as a respected stage actor.

Thirty years ago he took part in one of the seminal theatre productions of modern Irish theatre when he won a part in the premiere of Brian Friel’s Translations in Derry in 1980.