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Dervla Kirwan keeps mum on Smother finale Updated / Friday, 9 Apr 2021 23:18 Dervla Kirwan is remaining tight-lipped about the finale to Irish family drama Smother, which comes to an end on Sunday night, but she said she was delighted to return to Ireland to make the hit show. Speaking on Friday night s Late Late Show, she said, There s a wonderful poetry to coming back now, here to Ireland, playing this part, doing this show and RTÉ are leading the way giving an older woman an incredible leading part that is so beautifully written by Kate O Riordan. Dervla Kirwan in Smother Kirwan, who is from Churchtown in Dublin, plays a bad mother on the drama, which was filmed in the Clare village of Lahinch, and it’s the latest success for the actress, who made her breakthrough in ....
But the Dubliner admitted the show still holds a fond place in her heart. Speaking to Ryan Tubridy on tonight s Late Late Show, she said: It s a 25-year-old show now. I have a very fond place in my heart. I had an extraordinary experience as a young woman, being catapulted into a 16 million viewer show.unheard of really. I had Goodnight Sweetheart, which was again, a massive show. I think it was a really difficult experience and yet a glorious one. Difficult because the press were very invasive and yet I felt like I had to publicise it. I didn t have the mentors there, hopefully the younger actors now will have a generosity from our generation. ....
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The Spanish Princess, The Bay) and directed by Dathaí Keane ( An Klondike), who keeps a tight grip on the flashback-heavy narrative, it’s mercifully free of the begorrah and bejapers trappings you fear from any Irish drama co-produced by BBC Studios and aimed at as much an international audiences as domestic viewers. It’s a mash-up of noirish murder mystery and entertainingly overwrought familial nastiness, popul- ated by a large – a little confusingly so at first – cast of characters, some of them despicable types. Most despicable of all is Denis Ahern (Stuart Graham), a well-heeled shitheel and serial philanderer who’s married to Val (Kirwan). ....
Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like TV review: Restrained Dervla Kirwan steals the show from melodramatic Seána Kerslake Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 00:25 Ed Power Dervla Kirwan plays Val Ahern, who has had enough of her slimy, philandering husband Denis. But did she kill him?
Smother, RTÉ’s new psychological thriller written by former Mr Selfridge show-runner Kate O’Riordan, is a long way from perfect. There are too many characters, several of whom feel blandly interchangeable (have a bow stubbled middle-aged blokes #1 2, 3). The plot unspools like fresh-from-the-microwave Midsomer Murders. And it doesn’t take advantage of the Co Clare setting by evoking, as shows such has Broadchurch do, a specific sense of place. In Ireland there is no psychosphere. ....