![]() ![]() “Any story has potential, even the story of the chicken crossing the road,” Hilary says. That says a lot, considering the film which spawned the TV series saw the lads attempting to pedal down to West Cork to somehow secure some of the floating bales of cocaine adrift after a boat ran aground - a scenario sparked by the real-life €440m drugs haul at Dunlough Bay on the Mizen Peninsula in July 2007. “The second part is yes, it is a really flat-out comedy, but it also has a lot of heart, you are rooting for the characters, you don’t want them to get in trouble.”Īlex Murphy and Hilary Rose in The Young Offenders. “You could put those characters in any country and in other circumstances and people can still relate to it. “It is good writing first and foremost,” she says when asked as to one of the reasons for the show’s longevity in an era when some shows barely make the credits sequence of the pilot before being scrapped. ![]() As Mairead, she often has cause to scratch her head in bafflement or rage at the collective gormlessness of the lads and their ill-starred capers, but she also emphasises the role of the supportive mother, despite the travails. Hilary, who, as well as her role as matriarch Mairead, collaborates with her husband, director Peter Foott, on the show, is used to fielding queries about Conor and Jock’s harebrained schemes. It will be opened up to a Q+A session as well, so if fans out there really want to ask questions.”Īnd there are likely to be plenty of those. ![]() We’ll be looking at clips from seasons 1- 3 and playing live - it will be great craic. I’m very conscious a podcast is meant to be live and conversational and so to repeat it, it would feel stagey. “With this one, I pulled it together so fast, I don’t really have plans beyond it. ![]() It’s a very different commitment from the cast - it is going to be a really, really, really special event - possibly a one-off. “We needed a break, we did different things, we had no intention of writing a theatrical or live show kind of thing, even though people were crying out for us to tour it. “We never did anything live with Young Offenders,” Hilary, 43, continues. And so now it’s time to add one live audience. “We said let’s make it one step bigger and make a big show of it,” Hilary says. ![]()
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