It was the week we all gathered around the television to watch as a privileged and wealthy family imploded in dramatic fashion in front of our eyes. No, not the Windsors in London — I’m talking about the Aherns in Clare.
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Smother (RTÉ) told the story of this well-to-do family who chose the moment of mother Val’s (Dervla Kirwan) 50th birthday party to publicly fall apart. It couldn’t have been more dramatic if there was a billionaire media mogul sitting in a manicured garden interviewing two millionaires trying to free themselves from a medieval system of government.