- The role for which he will be most fondly remembered by a generation will be his time alongside Irish children's television icon Bosco, accompanying the ever-inquisitive puppet through the eponymously-titled afternoon show's original 1980s run, and remaining visible as the repeats of the beloved show ran in the afternoons until 1998.
- He featured on the advice show Agony OAPs, with retired footballer Pat Spillane and retired politician Mary O'Rourke, whom he impersonated on Bull Island.
- Twomey went on to appear on Bull Island, particularly as Mary O'Rourke, the then Minister for Public Enterprise.
- He famously satirised then-Public Enterprise Minister Mary O'Rourke on RTÉ's Bull Island; appeared on trailblazing RTÉ comedy Nighthawks; and a long-time stint as a dame of The Everyman's annual Christmas pantomime endeared him to generations of families in his native city Cork.
- A veteran of stage and screen, he played many roles over the course of a long and illustrious career, spanning from the 1980s to the beginning of the 2020s.
- Frank Twomey was openly gay, though this was not reflected on his show, Bosco, at which time it was illegal, "but it didn't stop me from being gay. It meant that I was careful and I was very discrete because I had a government job", he said later.
- Twomey was an Irish children's show host, best known as the main host of the children's television programme Bosco.
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