Fr Ted co-creator Arthur Mathews on the Leaving Cert: ‘I missed deadline to apply to art college’
Fr Ted co-creator recalls his most influential teacher, ‘pointless’ Irish study and lack of career planning
Arthur Mathews
Ardal O’Hanlon on Father Ted at 30: ‘I thought it was a sh*t idea. Who was going to want to watch a sitcom about priests?’
It’s one of the funniest TV sitcoms of all time, but success wasn’t preordained. Some of the key players look back at making its three classic series
95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals
By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more
Animal charity run by Cathy Davey hits the financial buffers over Covid-19
My Lovely Horse animal rescue is facing a deficit this year of €70,000
‘People say it must be hard to parody Cummings and Gove. And I say yes’
Father Ted creator Arthur Mathews on his new spoof of Boris Johnson’s former adviser
Father Ted creator to publish spoof Dominic Cummings diary
Faber to release Arthur Mathews’s satire on controversial British government adviser
Fawlty Towers named greatest British sitcom of all time
Father Ted, written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, came second, with I’m Alan Partridge in third
Last Train to Hilversum review: detail and trivia tuned to magic of radio
Charlie Connelly celebrates radio culture as a means of reaching out to a bigger world
‘Father Ted’ is set to return as a musical
Graham Linehan says ‘Pope Ted—The Father Ted Musical’ will be the ‘real final episode’
Careful now: Will we ever stop talking about Father Ted?
Twenty years and thousands of repeats later, Ireland still lives in Craggy Island’s shadow
A Fechin great buy: church in Termonfeckin for €130K
St Fechin’s Church, in the hometown of the creator of Father Ted, is for sale
Soccer memories: Jack Charlton, USA ‘94, and sticker collections
Blindboy, Miriam O’Callaghan, Jacqui Hurley and more share their memories of ‘the beautiful game'
Ballymagash to Craggy Island: Five great Frank Kelly creations
Comedian played a range of memorable and lovable characters on television and radio
Late Frank Kelly was loved by generations of Irish people
Articulate, charming actor could not have been further removed from Fr Jack’s personality
Television: A sugar-crash course in how we are poisoning ourselves
Review: Sugar Crash; Tracey Ullman’s Show; Fair City
The secret lives of the priests in Father Ted
What links the classic sitcom to The Smiths, Freddie Mercury, Star Wars, Trainspotting, Ballykissangel, Emmerdale and the cream of Irish journalism? Martin Doyle confesses all
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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