George Doyle is a gaelic football player from County Laois in Ireland.

He played on the Laois senior football team throughout the 1990s, primarily as a defender but also in midfield. During that period he was widely regarded as one of the top players in the country in his position as he was chosen to play on the Leinster team.

In 1991, he played on the Laois team beaten by Meath in the final of the Leinster Senior Football Championship.

With his club Courtwood, George won a Laois Junior Football Championship in 1986 and a Laois Intermediate Football Championship in 1987.

He was manager of the Laois under 21 Football team in 2005.

Allan Hawco (born July 28, 1977), is a Canadian television and film actor, best known for his roles in the television series ZOS: Zone of Separation and Republic of Doyle and the television films H₂O and The Trojan Horse.

Allan was born on Bell Island, Newfoundland Labrador, but moved to Goulds, Newfoundland at an early age. His father, Michael Hawco, worked on the Bell Island Ferry and his mother, Mary Hawco, was an elementary school teacher.

Hawco tried his hand at business, while studying at Memorial University of Newfoundland Labrador but soon dropped out and joined the acting community in the Shakespeare by the Sea production of Macbeth, directed by Aiden Flynn. From there, local Director Danielle Irvine encouraged Allan to audition for the National Theatre School where Allan was one of 13 selected from thousands of applicants that year.

After graduation from the National Theatre School of Canada in 2000, Hawco worked in many of the major Theatres in the country, tackling many of the sought after roles and productions before he started his own troupe -- (The Company Theatre). The Company’s inaugural production, A Whistle in the Dark, brought Hawco tremendous critical acclaim as well as a name for himself in the Canadian Industry. Soon after the Company Theatre’s debut, critics were naming (the Company Theatre) one of the most important Theatre companies in the nation. Hawco is currently Co-Artistic director with Philip Riccio and the head office is in Toronto Canada. Visit Companytheatre.ca for more info.

Doyle Lawson (born April 20, 1944) is an American bluegrass and gospel musician. Doyle is best known as an accomplished mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 5-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.

Doyle Lawson was born in Ford Town, Sullivan County, Tennessee, near Kingsport, the son of Leonard and Minnie Lawson. The Lawson family moved to Sneedville, Tennessee in 1954, around the time that Doyle acted upon his love for music.

Doyle grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights. This is where he became inspired by Bill Monroe, the "founding father" of bluegrass, and his band the Blue Grass Boys. His own instrumental piece, "Rosine," is a tribute to Monroe's birthplace and features, among other things, strains from the singer's 1967 instrumental "Kentucky Mandolin."

Doyle became interested in playing the mandolin around the age of eleven so his father borrowed a mandolin from Willis Byrd, a family friend and fellow musician. Doyle taught himself how to play the mandolin by listening to the radio and records, and watching an occasional TV show. His love for music grew and Doyle decided to learn to play the guitar and banjo as well.

Alan Thomas Doyle (born May 17, 1969) is a Canadian musician and actor, best known for his work as one of the lead singers of Celtic band Great Big Sea.

Doyle was born to Thomas and Regina Doyle in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, his mother was a piano teacher who taught him. Doyle attended St. Kevin's in Goulds, NL just outside Petty Harbour. Doyle has a brother, Bernie, and two sisters, Michelle and Kim. He was raised Roman Catholic. He attended Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. It is also there that he met Séan McCann, Bob Hallett and Darrell Power with whom he helped to form Great Big Sea. He primarily plays electric and acoustic guitars, and the bouzouki for live performances, but he's been known to play mandolin and banjo.

Before Great Big Sea Doyle played in a duo with John Brenton called Staggering Home. As a teen he played in his uncle's band, the New Sandells.

Doyle has also been involved with a handful of stage, television and film productions. As a child, he appeared as an extra in the movie A Whale For The Killing, based on Farley Mowat's book of the same name, which was filmed in his hometown. He has also hosted regional arts awards shows in Atlantic Canada, appeared as a presenter on the Juno Awards and done a turn onstage in his hometown's "24-Hour Musical" performance of Grease. In 2005, he composed music for the CBC comedy Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, which stars Mary Walsh. In 2006, he worked on scoring the film Young Triffie's Been Made Away With, directed by Walsh.

Maria Doyle Kennedy (born Maria Josephine Doyle; 25 September 1964) is an award-winning Irish actress and singer. As an actress she is possibly best known for her roles as Queen Katherine of Aragon in the award winning The Tudors and as the title character's wife Frances in The General.

Kennedy was born in Clontarf, Dublin. She is an honours graduate of Trinity College Dublin (Joint Honours Politics and Business) faculty of E.S.S.

In 2001, Maria released music on Mermaid Records, a label she founded herself. Her debut solo album Charm was released in 2001. She coordinated Sirens which is a compilation album of female artists and which was released in 2003. She released an album Skullcover consisting of cover versions in 2005, and Mütter in 2007. Maria’s new album with her husband Kieran is called The Storms Are On the Ocean. A collection of Appalachian standards dressed in darned gowns, its spiritual siblings are Plant's Band of Joy, PJ's White Chalk and Gillian Welch's stark daguerreotypes. Here are courtly tunes, murder ballads, child ballads and death fugues all backlit by Kieran Kennedy's acoustic guitar, banjo and piano. Both of her solo albums have been nominated for Meteor awards and her forthcoming project sees her teamed with U.S. country music legend John Prine Damien Rice and Paul Brady