Olivia Nash

Actress from Northern Ireland.

Actor BJ Hogg, star of Give My Head Peace

BJ Hogg was a supreme actor, a wonderful friend and a man who lived for his family... pals pay tribute

For the team from the Give My Head Peace TV 'family', so used to making the public laugh, yesterday the mood was strikingly sombre as they struggled to get their collective heads around the sudden death of one of their closest friends, the giant of a talent that was BJ Hogg.

Give My Head Peace: 'Life on the road is less rock and roll, more rock and hair rollers' for Olivia Nash and Alexandra Ford

They say that if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? And the Give My Head Peace gang - Da, Ma, Cal, Dympna and Billy the Peeler - have been absorbing Northern Ireland's many little 'quirks' for over 20 years and reflecting them hilariously back on to adoring audiences in their BBC NI show of the same name.

Royal recognition: Olivia Nash was awarded an MBE for her theatre and charity work

Actress Olivia Nash: The saddest time of my life was the death of my husband... he was a great dad

In this week's interview Rachel Dean talks to Give My Head Peace actress Olivia Nash (mid-70s), who lives in Belfast. She has one daughter, Patricia, and three grandchildren, Gabriel, Daisy and Livi.

Our holiday misadventures: Northern Ireland stars on their summer breaks

Well known local stars talk to Leona O'Neill about their best - and worst - vacation memories, from early childhood days spent caravanning in Castlerock, hitting Las Vegas and cruising down the river Nile

Tim McGarry: 'Our home set on fire, family friends murdered, riots ...the Troubles were the soundtrack to my life and they scarred me'

Northern Irish comedian Tim McGarry has been poking fun at paramilitaries, the Troubles and our tensions for several decades. But the north Belfast funny man, who knows only too well the impact of sectarian hatred, having had to flee for his life from his family home as a teenager after loyalists set it ablaze, says laughter is healthy.

Give My Head Peace's Olivia Nash: 'It's fantastic to be back on. Somehow we've never gone out of fashion, we give each side an equal rub and it's still topical'

Ma's back home - after being stuck in snow-clogged one-lane traffic for a good part of the day. But she's not speaking to me from 47a Divis Towers, the famous pokey abode from the long-running sitcom, Give My Head Peace.

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