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ENNIS actor Diarmuid de Faoite will be back on Irish television screens next week when he takes a lead role in TG4’s new crime drama, ‘Corp + Anam’.
De Faoite plays Cathal Mac Iarnáin, a TV crime correspondent who chases stories of health service neglect, boy-racer mindlessness, internet paedophilia and Garda corruption.
The four part series, which is written and directed by first time director Darach Mac Iomaire, begins on TG4 on February 16 (9.30pm).
De Faoite was born and raised in Ennis, where he attended the CBS. He began his professional theatre career with Na Fánaithe Theatre Com- pany in Galway in 1988, beginning his television career two years later with the release of Grásta i Meiriceá, an iconic Irish film by Antoine O Flaithearta, directed by Niall O Briain.
He moved to RTÉ in the early 90’s, co-presenting, writing, researching and performing in the ECU! ECU! and Eureka series over two seasons as well as puppeteering and researching for other RTE series such as The Morbegs and Cúrsaí Ealaíne.
He moved to STV in Scotland to perform in Machair, the Gaidhlig/ English soap opera, returning to Ireland to direct Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s ‘Tá an Tóin ag Titim as an tSaol’ in Belfast.
After stints in Dublin with both Amharclann de hÍde and the Peacock at the Abbey, Diarmuid returned to Galway to write and direct TG4’s first ever drama commission, Une Histoire d’Amour.
He performed, puppeteered, advised and dubbed on many of the early commissions at the time including the Ros na Rún pilot, becoming one of it’s best loved characters (Jack) for seven years.
Since then Diarmuid has been a fairly regular feature in Town Hall Theatre, An Taibhdhearc and POC productions, his own company, as well as performing with Druid.
Diarmuid has won both The Stewart Parker Trust Award and Duais Aitheantais an Oireachtais for his one-man play, ‘Pádraic Ó Conaire’. Together with director Paul Brennan, he won ‘Best Production’ for POC’s stage adaptation of ‘Paris,Texas’ for The Dublin Fringe as well as ‘Best Production’ for POC’s production of ‘The Fairgreen Slaughterhouse’ for Project ‘06 .
Together with Johnny White he won Best Feature Documentary at the Celtic Media Festival 2008.