Supporting children from two marriages, he has had little chance to take it easy over the years. I wouldn’t have had the work to give me that confidence.”Ĭarney has shouldered a deal of responsibilities along the way. Without Paul Mercier and Passion Machine I wouldn’t have stuck at it. “I saw an audition for Studs, with Passion Machine,” he says of Paul Mercier’s legendary organisation. I take it the subject matter is important to him. Carney plays Iver, a man with motor neuron disease (MND) who inclines towards the possibility of assisted suicide. It is therefore all the more delightful to see him in full flow at the heart of Sunlight, Claire Dix’s upcoming Dublin drama. And now I won’t be beating myself up.”įor all the subsequent success, Carney has rarely been offered leading roles in films. “If it doesn’t work at least I’ve tried it. “I knew that if I didn’t try it I would regret it for the rest of my life,” Carney says. At that stage he was still juggling a job at the post office with theatre work. That serious right-angled head and bristly voice are now essential to the Irish screen industries. He is currently playing Con Rafferty in Fair City. At the start of the century he spent months shooting Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Back in the early- to mid-1990s he was a regular on Glenroe. Over the past three decades or so, Carney has grown into one of our most deservedly unavoidable character actors. In Ireland, at a Christian Brothers school in the 1960s and 1970s, it just wasn’t something that was ever mentioned as a possible career.”
“But I never ever mentioned it to anyone. “I wanted to act ever since I was a kid,” Liam Carney says.
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