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FACT: In the movie Intermission, Colm Meaney's police detective urinates on a criminal's shoe. This was inspired by the time he did the same thing to Gene Hunt.
FACT: Google was so intrigued by Colm Meaney that it googled him.
FACT: Colm Meaney would have been cast as Samuel L Jackson's character in Die Hard: With A Vengenace, but he was committed to DS9. Had Meaney been cast, John McClane would have been a secondary character.
FACT: Colm Meaney can solve a Rubik's cube in 4.7 seconds.
FACT: Alexander Siddig was planning to quit DS9 until a chance meeting with Colm Meaney persuaded him that being O'Brien's buddy was an important role for all sidekicks.
FACT: Colm Meaney was the person who won £161 million on the Euromillions.
FACT: None of the DS9 actors were orignally planning to audition for the show until they got a friendly phone call from Colm Meaney. After that, they were all too terrified not to show up.
FACT: Colm Meaney's name in Irish Gaelic translates roughly as "The One".
FACT: Colm Meaney is related to Chuck Norris, but Chuck Norris doesn't acknowledge this out of fear.
Colm Meaney was supposed to take over Voyager Season 4 as the Captain, but he didn't want to be portrayed as your typical blood lust Irish man wanting to kill Enlish people. So he declined and they made Janeway that way instead...
During the first season, many cast members wet their pants whenever they had scenes with Colm Meaney. During the rest of the seasons, they were required to wear depends whenever Colm was around.
FACT: Colm Meaney was originally going to be in Star Trek Eleven, but backed out when it was revealed that the scene involve him being in his jockey short with Chris Pine on a bed.