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Shay Healy was born in 1943 and has had a long and
varied career in entertainment. After leaving
school he spent two years working for the Irish
Press newspaper, but in 1963 he moved to RTÉ
where be became one of the Irish national
broadcasters first cameramen. Shay Healy was right
in the middle of the Irish folk revival of the
1960's as a songwriter, journalist and performer.
In 1967 the performer took over when he left RTÉ
and changed sides of the camera to present
"Balladsheet" and he also became the folk
correspondent for hugely popular "Spotlight"
magazine. He also presented "Preab Sa Cheoil" for
RTÉ radio and toured the country on the expanding
folk circuit. In the early 1970's Shay Healy spent
much of time time in the USA, where he worked as
an entertainer as well as being the manager of a
popular Irish bar and restaurant.
Shay Healy returned to Ireland in 1976 and revived
his television career. He co-hosted the popular
children's television show "Hullabaloo" alongside
Marion Richardson, artist Pat Ingoldsby and
popular Limerick comedians Tom and Pascal. However
it was Healy's alter-ego "Famous Shamus" that is
most widely remembered. Indeed Healy scored his
first big Irish hit under that guise.
"Hullabaloo" didn't last long and Healy next found
himself in the role of Associate Editor of
"Starlight" magazine, the successor to
"Spotlight". However when RTÉ 2 television began
in 1978, Healy was brought in to do publicity for
the new station. He was subsequently promoted to
Acting Press and Information Executive and it was
while doing this job that his song "What's Another
Year" won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980.
When he arrived back at Dublin Airport , he had to
conduct a press conference for himself. "What's
Another Year" has special significance for Shay
Healy as it was written to commemorate his father,
who had passed away the previous year.
Eurovision victory helped Shay Healy's music
career and in the following years he recorded
demos with the cream of Irish musicians, but while
the music was well received, business wasn't his
forte and in 1986, he returned to television on
"Evening Extra" and followed that with a popular
series "The Dublin Village", which has recently
been repeated. In 1988 he became host of
"Nighthawks", an odd-ball chat show set in a
diner. Over four years, "Nighthawks" became a huge
cult hit show on RTÉ 2. It was Shay Healy's
famous interview with former government minister
Sean Doherty that brought an end to the political
career of Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey,
and changed the Irish political landscape forever.
Healy wrote several books over the next few years
which included children's books, fictional novels
and memoirs of his life as a gigging musician. In
the early '90s, Healy began making documentaries
for RTÉ, including many memorable shows, like
portraits of Roy Rogers "King of the Cowboys",
Tammy Wynette "First Lady", "The Rocker" a
biography of Phil Lynott, "The Real Fr.Ted - A
Portrait of Dermot Morgan" and "Harbour Nights" an
eight-part docu-soap, set in Courtown, Co.
Wexford.
Shay Healy has continued his musical career
writing songs which have been recorded by many of
Ireland's biggest stars like Daniel O'Donnell,
Maura O'Connell, The Fureys, Paddy Reilly and
former Eurovision winners Linda Martin and Paul
Harrington. In 2003 Shay Healy worked with John
Colgan and Moya Doherty, who are most famous for
the 1993 Eurovision interval act "Riverdance".
Together they produced "The Wiremen" which had a
successful in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre in the
summer of 2005.
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| Stamp! - Jeremy Healy & Amos - 1996 |
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Music Video to accompany this Trance track which
was inside the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart.
Produced by Jeremy Healy, he is a notable English
DJ who was previously in the 1980s British novelty
pop group, Haysi Fantayzee.
He has worked with Gwen Stefani on the mashup for
her "Wind It Up" single in 2004, and has also been
responsible for remixing songs by Boy George and
George Michael.
Both Healy & Amos released another track called
Argentina called Argentina.
This managed to make the Top 30 in the UK Singles
Chart in 1997.
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| Gene Healy on the Presidency (1 of 2) |
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Gene Healy discusses the Presidency at the
Massachusetts School of Law in April, 2008. Healy
is the author of The Cult of the Presidency, the
new Cato Institute book that examines how
Americans have expanded presidential power over
recent decades by expecting solutions for all
national problems, and concludes by calling for
the presidents role to return to its properly
defined constitutional limits. Healy also
discusses the infamous John Yoo torture memos.
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| Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy Video |
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The nation's largest icebreaker, Coast Guard
Cutter Healy, commanded by Captain Ted Lindström,
returned to its homeport of Seattle. Healy's
arrival in Seattle denotes the successful
conclusion of the Arctic West Summer 2007
Deployment that began when Healy departed Seattle
April 3. Since April, Healy and its crew traveled
over 25,000 nautical miles and conducted over
2,000 individual science evolutions.
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