- Son of former Killarney town councillor Michael and Sheila Courtney.
- His two brothers, Hugh and Paddy, also served on the former Killarney Town Council.
- Graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.
- Has two children, Jonah and Líla.
- Taught drama at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.
- Taught Michael Fassbender at his amateur drama school at St Brendan's College in Killarney, Ireland.
- Before his untimely death he had been the director of the West End Acting School in Killarney, Ireland.
- Well known for "God Has No Country", his brilliant one-man show based on the life and times of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.
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