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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.
Nearly a quarter of a century later, Dubliner Dervla is again set to take centre stage for must-see Sunday night TV in riveting new RTÉ drama Smother. She stars as domineering Val Ahern, a mother who is estranged from her millionaire husband Denis.
The six-part series is set among beautiful scenery in Co Clare and most of the action in tonight s dramatic opening episode revolves around Val s 50th birthday party in the family s jaw-dropping coastal mansion.
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.