Ros na Run

The Briain storyline is the weakest and most unbelievable of the lot. Nuala an old friend of Berni suddenly turns against Berni. See's the Sorcha video then believes Briain's story. Makes no sense at all anyone else would have run a mile. They have to make Nuala really gullible as result how can the viewer believe that?

The Bobbi Lee wedding storyline, Vince/Vanessa/Catriona storyline and the Tadgh/Sonny storyline are all great.

I would say it is connected to Tadgh's auld fella. Given his history of violence etc.

I love the irony that Tadhg often said in the past - ‘Is O'Direain mé’ or ‘Nach bhfuil O'Direain thú?’ Yet he knows well he not an O'Direain himself!

New actress Síle who acts as Crystal.

Former teacher started acting for the craic late in life. To me she is like RNR answer to Dolly Parton.

The actor who played him died a couple of years ago

It's heading for the Katy v Dee effect i fear, where they go on and on and on and eventually the waters get so muddy'd in the past we just "forget" the bad things Briain has done.

i get they love to hang onto a good baddie (Andy for example) for longer then they should sometimes, but i feel it would have been much more satisfactory if Andy had finished Briain off tbh... And as his swan song i feel it would have given a better ending with Andy doing one good thing for Bernie albeit a murder before he dies himself...

Bobbi-Lee will murder Mack when she finds out about what happened to Niall

I have just caught up. Thought exactly the same things. Was sure it was going to be a redemption arc for Andy. Instead we will have Briain hanging around like an oddball.

RnR legal incompetence to suit a storyline is never is believable, O'Shea is basically as much an eejit as Tony most of time. But we are told investigations take time! She only ever goes on about 'conflict of interest' or how a matter is 'confidential'. Yet as broken those herself on numerous occasions!

RnR must be littered with dead bodies over the decades, and as for the health system and public representatives, they must be one of the worst in the country!

I feel RnR needs an TD character as the only real attempted authority we see on the show is O'Shea. Would be great to have a dodgy TD for planning decisions tie in with the Sonny storyline. Could be the new dodgy character. No doubt Briain will be made to disappear (2 or 3 seasons from now) by sending his character to Australia. Dublin, or even Galway. It is rare any character gets back from Galway/Dublin in RnR. It probably won't even be prison!

Never mind Charles III - it is Realtin a trí!

They have gradually went from the clean cut girly actresses, to an actress playing a surly type version with lots of attitude. There will obviously be young 'Katy 2.0' type story lines in the pipeline.

Yeah the writing natural flow and realism was by and large far more superior in the old Ros Na Run’s on YouTube. They are much more enjoyable as a result. They used to go for realism instead of outlandish stuff.

The modern RnR’s are ruined by unbelievable stuff, and desperate creation of storylines that make completely no sense when they keep pushing it.

I honestly think the modern writers are lazy. Not much attention to detail. An ‘it will do, sure who will notice?’ attitude. It is a pity because the quality of acting is great.

Feel sorry for them when they are let down by the writing. Anyway the knives/knife is out!

I am a bit disappointed the way they are setting the Catriona/Vince thing back together. I was looking forwards to the 'odd couple' storylines between Catriona/David. They used to have that great odd couple with the two bachelors Coli and Seamus M.Tom. I was hoping for more of the same with Catriona/David.

Give me twenty guesses and I still would not have predicted who set that camera up. It was a good twist in fairness.

Agreed, it would have made far more sense if they made the actress her former character Brid. Instead of this Vera one.

Tony could have been her secret love child with John Joe. Who we later find out about as John Joe being the father.

As we know John Joe always kept his gun uncovered and fully loaded. Causing uproar in Gardai echelons in RnR. And yet more friction with Imelda.

And meanwhile Brid trying to wrestle control of cúl caint from Berni after all these years. Using Berni’s child Lenora as leverage in the plot.

Simple - would make sense. But instead we get another ‘out of place’ plot. Vera snooping for no real reason and a Tony who is scared stiff of his mother.

Despite the fact we were previously led to believe that Tony worshiped the ground his mother Vera walks on.

Zero consistency- gan ciall ar fad.

There I was thinking that Realtin III was young Katy 2.0. But I think that role has been taken over by 'Che'. I thought the fact that 'Che' was only short for Seamus was gas. Well played by the RnR writers on that one.

I have it on now and every character is giving out to each other, or involved in some sort of manipulation. All in a run of quick scenes one after another - with just 11 minutes gone.

Realtin annoyed with Noreen. Tadgh annoyed with John Joe. Manus getting annoyed with Tadgh. Noreen annoyed with Maeve. Sadie manipulated by Malachai. Colli Jackie annoyed with Sadie. And Sadie annoyed with Coli Jackie. Sam annoyed with Mack. Mack annoyed with Sam. Realtin annoyed with Che.

I made note of the writer of the episode Niamh Ní Chualáin, to see if it is her style.

I assume he gets in with the wrong crowd. Didn’t Che pay an airfare to Copenhagen for some randomer. And let on he was mugged for the sympathy vote.

Again if RnR was more true to life. Would any parents want to put up with a son like Che?

In reality sending him to America wouldn’t be far enough. He is extremely annoying.