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Back in the 1990s, TV viewers fell in love with Dervla Kirwan when her feisty character Assumpta Fitzgerald and her doomed relationship with Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel became a Sunday evening mainstay - not just in Ireland but in the UK.
Drama shot in North Clare to air from Sunday night March 6, 2021 Smother, which will air on RTÉ One next Sunday night. Shot on location in Lahinch, Liscannor, Spanish Point, Fanore, Ennistymon and Lisdoonvarna, the six-part drama is described as a “domestic noir thriller,” and is a co-production with BBC. It was filmed last year in adherence with pandemic guidelines. The high-end production featured a number of locals as crew members and extras. Writer Kate O’Riordan, who worked on the hit series Mr Selfridge, created the family thriller which sees her tight-knit family of characters...
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The cast of RTÉ/BBC drama Smother, from left: Niamh Walsh as Jenny; Dervla Kirwan as Val Ahern; Seána Kerslake as Grace and Gemma-Leah Devereux as Anna But nothing can compete with her hilarious nickname for ITV's This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby - who has a very public crush on Dervla's actor husband Rupert Penry-Jones - and later, we will get to that. First, though, Dervla stars in new RTÉ/BBC drama Smother, a family thriller that opens with her matriarch, Val Ahern's, 50th birthday party and the mysterious death of her "despicable" husband Denis (Stuart Graham). Their three daugh...
Written by Kate O’Riordan ( Mr. Selfridge, The Bay) and produced by Treasure Entertainment ( Finding Joy, Handsome Devil) with BBC Studios, Smother is an investigative thriller about the secrets families keep from each other, set in a small town on the beautiful, wild and rugged coast of County Clare. Dervla Kirwan ( The Stranger, White Dragon) leads as family matriarch Val – a devoted mother who is determined to protect her family and particularly her three daughters Jenny, Anna, and Grace, at any cost. Jenny is a heavily pregnant single doctor, unsure of the choices she has...