Paschal Canice Mooney (born 14 October 1947) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a member of Seanad Éireann. A journalist and broadcaster, he was first elected to the Seanad in 1987, on the Cultural and Educational Panel. He retained his seat at each subsequent election until losing it at the 2007 election to the 23rd Seanad. He was re-elected to Seanad Éireann on the Agricultural Panel in a Seanad by-election on 19 January 2010.

Born in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, he is married to Sheila Baldrey and has five children (2 daughters and 3 sons). His father Joe Mooney was a member of the Seanad (1961–65) and Leitrim County Council (1943–88) while his mother Eva Mooney also served as a member of Leitrim County Council (1988–91). Paschal Mooney is the third generation of his family to contribute to public service locally and nationally as his grandfather Andrew Mooney served as a member of Leitrim County Council from 1920–1943.

Mooney has also enjoyed a broadcasting career with RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. A presenter of a variety of Irish traditional and country music and Sports programmes, he has also devised, scripted and presented numerous music documentaries on Irish and American country music stars. In September 2007, he was the recipient of the UK based Irish Post Newspaper Readers Award for 'Services to the Irish Community in Britain' and as a Senator was a leading campaigner for the undocumented Irish in the USA as well as being the 'Voice of the Irish Diaspora' in Seanad Éireann. He presented music programmes on Ocean FM and Dublin's Country Mix 106.8 and completed a series for RTÉ Radio 1 titled 'Irish Music Legends' which was transmitted in August 2008.

Shane Supple (born 4 May 1987) is an Irish sportsman. He plays Gaelic football with the Dublin senior football team and with his home club St Brigids, in Castleknock. He is also a former professional soccer goalkeeper who spent his career at Ipswich Town, having been a graduate of Ipswich's youth system.

In the 2004–05 season, he was part of the FA Youth Cup-winning Ipswich team. On 13 August 2005 he made his first appearance for the Ipswich first team, when an injury to first-choice goalkeeper Lewis Price forced Supple to play for an hour of the match against Leicester City; Supple kept a clean sheet. He retained the number one spot for Ipswich Town, and in the summer of 2006, Charlton made a number of bids for the Republic of Ireland player, but Ipswich manager Jim Magilton rejected all them. Leeds also showed interest but Ipswich informed the public that no bid had been made. He mainly featured among the Ipswich substitutes during the 2006–07 season with Lewis Price being first-choice keeper.

Abie Philbin Bowman is an Irish comedian and journalist. His works include Jesus: The Guantanamo Years and Eco-Friendly Jihad.

He is the writer/director/performer of Jesus: The Guantanamo Years, which was staged in 2006 in the Project Arts Centre (Temple Bar, Dublin) and the Underbelly (Cowgate, Edinburgh) as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was widely reported in the media and sold out - The Scotsman referred to him as "the face of this year's Fringe". In 2007, the show toured to London's West End, Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater in Boston, theatres across Ireland and the World Performing Arts Festival in Lahore, Pakistan. Performances in Belfast in Autumn 2007, were boycotted by Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party.

Philbin Bowman followed this up with further performances at The Underbelly for the 2008 festival, as well as his show Eco-Friendly Jihad. In November 2008 he began working in radio full-time. On the night Barack Obama was elected US President, Philbin Bowman interviewed the National Membership Director of the Ku Klux Klan on Irish radio station, i102-104. Later that month, he began hosting the main talk show - The Third i - on their sister station, i105-107. He hosted the Third i until May, 2009. He then returned to comedy and resumed touring 'Eco-Friendly Jihad', using the tag line 'The comedy show bin Laden took seriously', following an audiotape - allegedly by the Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden - which blamed the US for climate change.

Derek James Mooney (born 4 March 1967) is an Irish radio and television presenter, as well as a radio producer. He currently presents a weekday afternoon programme called Mooney on RTÉ Radio 1.

On television he often presents game shows and talent contests: his presentation credits include Echo Island, Winning Streak, the ill-fated Cabin Fever, You're a Star, The Big Money Game, Fame: The Musical, The Genealogy Roadshow and Who Knows Ireland Best?. He is often seen around Europe announcing the points for Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest, and is recognised by Graham Norton on the BBC. Mooney is known for his trademark of staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed into the camera at viewers while waving frantically and screeching "BYEEEE!" as loud as he can.

Mooney also writes occasional opinion pieces for the Evening Herald.

Mooney is one of Ireland's best-known television personalities and one of the country's most prolific broadcasters in the area of natural history. He idolised Gay Byrne as a kid.

Kevin (Paul) Mooney (born 5 May 1962 in Greenwich, London, England) is an English rock bassist and guitarist who has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O'Connor, and others.

Mooney began as the bass player for Adam and the Ants, between 1980 and 1981, appearing on the album Kings of the Wild Frontier. After leaving the band because of personal conflict and creative differences, he formed the band Wide Boy Awake with partner John Keogh and collaborator and fantasist Harley Price. Wide Boy Awake released two EPs in the UK, including songs "Chicken Outlaw", "Billy Hyena", "Bona Venture" and "Slang Teacher", some of which appear on 1980s various-artists compilations. "Billy Hyena" was accompanied by a music video directed by Derek Jarman. Wide Boy Awake disbanded soon after without releasing a full album of music. During this period, Mooney guested on Sinéad O'Connor's album The Lion and the Cobra, writing and playing guitar on one track "Just Call Me Joe", featuring Leslie Winer (co-writer) on backup spoken vocal.