- He attended St. Brendan's, then St. Athanasius Primary Schools before going on to attend Our Lady's High School in Motherwell.
- McCardie performed readings of his own poems at various venues around Ireland and was filming them for distribution online.
- Brian McCardie was a Scottish actor and writer, known for his role as John Thomas "Tommy" Hunter in the BBC police procedural series Line of Duty.
- He performed his self-penned one-man play Connolly at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast but the cancellation of 2020's Edinburgh Festival meant he lost the opportunity to present it in a six-week run in Edinburgh's Cowgate, where James Connolly was born and raised.
- Born on exactly the same date as Diane Lane ("Streets of Fire", "The Outsiders", "Judge Dredd").
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