{{Short description|Irish writer and media personality}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Use Irish English|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Fiona Looney | image = | image_size = 150px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = [[Journalist]], [[playwright]] | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Steve | partner = | children = Ciara, Cian, Uainín | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Fiona Looney''' is an [[Irish people|Irish]] columnist, playwright, scriptwriter and media personality.
==Personal life== Looney was brought up in a Catholic family in the [[Greenhills, Dublin|Greenhills]] region of south [[Dublin]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Miriam meets...... Dr Anne Looney and her sister Fiona Looney|url=http://www.rte.ie/radio1/miriam-meets/programmes/2012/0429/350934-290412/|website=RTÉ.ie|access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref> She has spoken about having been sexually assaulted on two occasions, while a child and as a young adult.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lundon|first1=Jane|title=Fiona Looney:"I was molested as a child so seeing perverts being let off chills my heart"|url=http://rsvpmagazine.ie/fiona-looneyi-molested-child-seeing-perverts-let-chills-heart/|website=RSVP.ie|access-date=26 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817071611/http://rsvpmagazine.ie/fiona-looneyi-molested-child-seeing-perverts-let-chills-heart/|archive-date=17 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bibi Baskin and Fiona Looney open up about sexual assault on TV3’s Midday|url=http://www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/tv-news/176983/Bibi-Baskin-and-Fiona-Looney-open-up-about--sexual-assault-on-TV3s-Midday|website=TV3.ie|date=31 August 2015|access-date=26 July 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818203257/http://www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/tv-news/176983/Bibi-Baskin-and-Fiona-Looney-open-up-about--sexual-assault-on-TV3s-Midday|archivedate=18 August 2016}}</ref>
==Career== Looney began her career as a writer for the Irish political music magazine ''[[Hot Press]]'', before going on to a career with [[BBC Radio]] in [[London]], England, during the 1990s. She regularly contributed to ''[[The Gerry Ryan Show]]'' on [[RTÉ 2fm]] until the death of [[Gerry Ryan]] in 2010.
She was previously a regular contributor to topical comedy show ''[[The Panel (Irish TV series)|The Panel]]''. Looney's other television credits include working as a reporter for news programme ''Capital D'' and presenting two series of the travel series ''Voyager'' on RTÉ. Looney is also the creator of ''[[Celebrity Bainisteoir]]'', having first submitted the idea to RTÉ in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0517/1224297119776.html|title=Writer created celebrity TV series - judge|date=2011-05-17|access-date=2011-05-17|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]}}</ref> As a screenwriter, she has contributed to the television shows ''[[The Fast Show]]'', ''[[No Limits (Sky TV series)|No Limits]]'', ''This Is Ireland'', and ''[[You're a Star]]'', among others.
Looney writes columns for the newspaper ''[[Irish Daily Mail]]'' and magazine ''Woman's Way''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/want-a-stayathome-wife-go-and-see-dandelions-99988.html|title=Want a stay-at-home wife? Go and see 'Dandelions'|date=2006-05-27|access-date=2008-11-13|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]}}</ref> Her newspaper columns provided the material for her first book, ''Misadventures in Motherhood: Life with The Small Girl, The Boy and The Toddler'' (2005). She is also a playwright. Her debut play ''Dandelions'' was a commercial success and focused on the lives of women in suburban Ireland; it became the first in a trilogy of plays.<ref name="Public well advised to pick Dandelions">{{cite web|url=http://www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story/?trs=cwauidqlkf |title=Public well advised to pick Dandelions |date=2006-06-22 |access-date=2009-07-31 |publisher=The Kingdom }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=1464650|name=Fiona Looney}} * {{Twitter|fionalooney}}
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