Rory Cowan mysteriously quits 'Mrs Brown's Boys' after 26 years

He's played Agnes’ son Rory on hit production Mrs Brown's Boys for 26 years.

But Rory Cowan has decided to quit the show in a shock move, but refuses to give the reasons why. 

The actor, who performed for the last time at London’s O2 on Sunday night, told the Irish Daily Mail that he has been unhappy for some time. 

He said: 'I hadn’t been happy working for the Mrs Brown’s Boys company for the last 18 months to two years.

'I feel that 26 years is enough so I decided it was time to go. I told Brendan [O'Carroll, the writer and actor] on June 16 about my decision to leave.

'That’s when I handed in my notice. 

'I was supposed to leave at the end of that week, but Brendan said that would be impossible and asked if I’d stay on until the end of the London O2 gigs. So I agreed to that.'

Mrs Brown’s Boys started off as a stage show before being picked up by the BBC and becoming a TV smash hit.

It first aired on the channel in 2011 to huge acclaim and a movie, called Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie, was released three years later.   

Rory said he went for dinner with friends in London after the show but said there had been no backstage party at the O2 because he 'left the way I wanted to go'.

'I'm not going into details about why I was unhappy. I did the final show, packed my stuff into a small Waitrose plastic bag and just left the venue.'

The actor says he has no plan as to what he will do next. 

He said: 'I'd love to do something like a weekend radio show but we'll see what comes down the line," he said. For now I'm going to take a little time off.'