Declan Buckley is an Irish television personality and

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from

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, Ireland, going by the persona Shirley Temple Bar. This name is a play on the name of the American child actress

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and a cultural area of Dublin city called Temple Bar. He also writes a weekly column in national newspaper, '' The Star on Sunday''. He has a business degree from Dublin City University. He featured on several documentaries for Irish and British television, an Irish language programme by broadcaster

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was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award in 2003. A 1997 winner of the

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competition which helped launch his career, Buckley hosts a weekly bingo and

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in Dublin's gay bar, The George. In 2001, he caused a stir when his character Shirley Temple Bar took over the presentation of the National Lottery

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, '' Telly Bingo'', on television. In 2004, Buckley began to present the show as himself.

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