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Shay Healy


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SHAY HEALY is an author, songwriter, TV producer and presenter. His RTÉ 1 pet series, Beastly Behaviour, was a big hit with audiences old and young. He also released a CD of animal songs, Havananimal Week. Shay is best known as the writer of ‘What’s Another Year’, which won the Eurovision Song Contest for Johnny Logan in 1980.

Books (select cover or title for more information)


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Beastly Jokes (pb)

What was the snail doing on the motorway?
About 5 centimetres an hour.
A herd of animal jokes to drive every parent up the wall!

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More Beastly Jokes (pb)
What do cats eat for breakfast?
Mice Krispies.
An ark-full of animal jokes that will have you 'horse' with laughing!

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On the Road (pb)
From Tara to Tiananmen Square by way of Chuck Berry
There are very few people who can claim to have sat in Tammy Wynette's bath and sung 'Stand By Your Man' and had Billy Connolly sing one of your songs on Michael Parkinson.
Shay Healy can.

Praise for On the Road
'a snap-crackle-and-pop read that sizzles with self-deprecating whimsy' Books Ireland
'In this engaging memoir of knock about life in the entertainment business, he drops a name on every page - sometimes, it seems, in every paragraph - and you better believe it too. He's been there, done that and has usually got the photograph to prove it.' The Belfast Telegraph
'A fine storyteller relating fascinating yarns in easily-accessed prose.' The Irish Independent
A light hearted look at Shay's amazing career to date, an enjoyable book from start to finish.' Donegal News & Derry People
'An unputdownable account of a life well lived. I only met Shay once, and was highly impressed with his genuineness and humility. 'On The Road' pays unique homage to both of those qualities. Buy it.' Meath Chronicle
'A witty, self-effacing compendium of Healy highlights and lowlights' The Irish Times
'Shay Healy is a wonderfully warm and engaging storyteller. He details the events of his life with an hilarious and sometimes rueful bemusement. A huge enjoyment ... will have the reader calling for more.' Gabriel Byrne
'a stirring tale of one of Ireland's true renaissance men' Capital magazine
'entertaining romp through Shay's own highly entertaining career' Joe Duffy, Ireland on Sunday
'like a really entertaining pub conversation' Evening Herald
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