Declan Lowney

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Declan Lowney is a BAFTA-winning Irish television and film director. His works include episodes of the ITV drama Cold Feet (and its preceding pilot), the Channel 4 situation comedy Father Ted and the BBC Two series Help. An early credit is his direction of the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Dublin, for which he won a Jacob's Award.

Lowney will be directing a forthcoming biographical film about Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards, with Steve Coogan in the title role.^[1] Lowney has been the recipient of the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Programme or Series twice; the first in 1996 for Father Ted and the second ten years later for Help.

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• Declan Lowney at the British Film Institute
• Declan Lowney at the Internet Movie Database