They were known as burial artists — people who had themselves buried alive in macabre feats of endurance — and Mick Meaney resolved to be the best there ever was. It was 1968 and the Irish man had ...

Beo Faoin bhFód is a new Irish language documentary, commissioned and funded by TG4 and Coimisiún na Meán, about a man who buried himself alive to reach fame and fortune. The film premiered at the ...

Daire Collins’s superb bilingual documentary has enormous warmth and poignancy Tipperary man Mick Meaney, who was buried alive in a coffin for 61 days, is embraced by promotor Michael ‘Butty’ Sugrue, ...

Born in Tipperary, and a resident of Co Cork, Mick Meaney set a world record in a stunt that sparked a rivalry with with a man from Cobh Mick Meaney with his manager Butty Sugrue after completing 61 ...

Mick Meaney, from Ballyporeen in Tipperary, and later of Mitchelstown Co Cork, made global headlines in 1968 when he spent 61 days buried alive Michael Meaney looking at footage of himself on TV 30 ...