'Derry Girls' actor Jamie Lee O'Donnell, Shobsy, Irish country music stars for 'The Late Late Show'

Jamie Lee O'Donnell of Derry Girls fame, professor Luke O'Neill, Mary McAleese, Shobsy and a slew of Irish country music stars are among this week's guests on The Late Late Show.

Foyleside wild child Michelle Mallon is played by actress Jamie Lee O'Donnell, who will chat Ryan Tubridy all about her part in the hit Channel 4 show - which premiered its final season earlier this week.

In 2018, the Derry native starred in a theatre production I Told My Mum I Was Going on an RE Trip, by Julia Samuels, playing an underage girl who decides to undergo an abortion. The following year, she joined the cast of Girls and Dolls, a play by the Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee. O'Donnell later acted in Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Gaiety Theatre.

Of her role as Michelle Mallon, she said, "Michelle really thinks she's maybe just a bit too big for the place she was born in and she's ready to take on the world one swearword at a time. She's really feisty, really ballsy, doesn't really care about authority, just sort of up for anything and up for a laugh."

Jamie-Lee O'Donnell at the Derry Girls Series 3 red carpet at Omniplex in Derry. April 2022. Copyright Miguel Ruiz.

Dublin singer Shobsy is live in studio for a very special performance at the end of a very moving week.

The former State Lights frontman recently unveiled the charismatic video for his debut solo single 'Vanity', featuring an oil painting of himself in historical garb.

Shobsy sold out his first solo show at Dublin’s Workman’s Club in a matter of days last autumn, and toured as support guest with RTE Choice Music Prize nominees Soda Blonde earlier this year.

Guests from the world of Irish Country Music, including a star-studded line-up of Trudi Lalor, Gloria, Jimmy Buckley, Robert Mizzell and Declan Nerney, will mark Big Tom's anniversary on The Late Late Show.

Cathy Wheatley will also be on the show to discuss the experience of evacuating her Ukrainian surrogate from war.

Ivana Holub is the surrogate mother to Cathy's twins and now Ivana, along with her three children are living with Cathy, Cathy's husband, and the twins.

Immunologist Professor Luke O'Neill, who has landed back in Ireland after volunteering in Slovakia to deliver humanitarian supplies to Ukraine, will be along, as will former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, who first spoke about Ukraine on The Late Late Show just over a month ago.

There will also be a very special performance by young Ukrainian dancer Taya Shvets, who fled Ukraine with her mother and her brother when Russia invaded their homeland.

Tune in to The Late Late Show tonight at 9:35pm on RTE One.