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RTE announces Classic Glenroe.

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  • #122
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    That was actually very controversial at the time. You could see it going in and everything.

    Bloody sheets. Purple faces


  • #123
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Bloody sheets. Purple faces

    <snipped>

    MOD: Too much detail, we don't need that type of smut in here!


  • #124
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,384 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Mena Mitty wrote: »
    Think Dick was the first in Glenroe to drive a Gold Granada Ghia.

    He also used it to roide Mary in the back seat down some quiet boreen....while her poor ol' husband waiting at home for her, sat by the fire supping his cocoa wondering if she checked in the Bingo.

    The old man was often left sitting on his armchair, after the fire had gone out.....well after midnight until Mary came home. He needed Mary to pull off his longjohns and socks and put on his pyjama's for him....such are the duties of a devoted wife.

    I don’t remember Dick and mary before they were married? Assumed later alright she had a previous relationship seen as Dick wasn’t Biddys father. Whole new insight I never knew


  • #125
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,384 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    Remember Tessy? behind the counter in the pub she had a double chin that always wobbled when she spoke was in a relationship with Dinny lol?

    Teasy McDaid- Maureen Toal, fantastic actress and great warm character in Glenroe. Well ahead of her time in terms of social views and compassion too


  • #126
    snowgal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭snowgal


    Gel roe


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  • #127
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,832 ✭✭✭s8n


    The whole Sunday dread thing with Glenroe is quite frankly overdone at this stage, can we all just give it a rest !!

    I’m terms of bringing it back, it’s a great idea. Solid show and if it’s a success then may spawn a new generation


  • #128
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Miley is dead in real life and Fidelma is 30 years older - just saying.


  • #129
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    road_high wrote: »
    I don’t remember Dick and mary before they were married? Assumed later alright she had a previous relationship seen as Dick wasn’t Biddys father. Whole new insight I never knew

    He had a wife called Ruth.
    They divorced and he married Mary in Rome.

    It was a bit of a grey area legally as was the style at the time.


  • #130
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    They love Glenroe in D4.


  • #131
    Hello 2D Person Below
    Registered Users Posts: 13,755 ✭✭✭✭Hello 2D Person Below


    The ha'penny version of Ballykissangel.

    This is one for the 'Things the Brits do better than the Irish' thread.


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  • #132
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    He had a wife called Ruth.
    They divorced and he married Mary in Rome.

    It was a bit of a grey area legally as was the style at the time.


    I think there were photos of them in their wedding outfits in the RTE Guide at the time.

    He had two adult sons from his first marriage but I can't remember if they were in it very often. One of the sons is married to the bould Terry Killeen in real life.


  • #133
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Wake me up for the reboot of Bracken, then we'll talk.


  • #134
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Bracken
    12 x 50 minute episodes. All intact. Ideal for a DVD release by Network
    But RTE know best and keep it rotting on the shelves.


  • #135
    Hello 2D Person Below
    Registered Users Posts: 13,755 ✭✭✭✭Hello 2D Person Below


    Never heard tell of Bracken.


  • #136
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Hello 2D Person Below wrote: »
    Never heard tell of Bracken.


    1980 & 1982
    Starred Gabriel Byrne
    Dinny and Miley were also in it - it was a precursor to Glenroe and a follow-on from The Riordans.


  • #137
    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    Hello 2D Person Below wrote: »
    Never heard tell of Bracken.

    Was the prequel to Glenroe I think had a few cast members and a farming vibe Gabriel Byrne was in it. Never watched an episode of it because I to young back then was it 1980s?


  • #138
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    <snipped>

    MOD: Too much detail, we don't need that type of smut in here!

    Christ alive, just noticed that this was 'snipped'!

    Welcome to After Hours, where it's perfectly acceptable for a coprophilic weirdo to vividly describe the minutiae of a colleague's bowel movement, but a tasteful description of septuagenarian love is somehow beyond the pale.


  • #139
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    RTE really is now utterly pathetic pretence of public broadcasting. Liquidate the entire operation and give tg4 twice it's current budget to so it can run both an Irish and English language station.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #140
    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Hello 2D Person Below wrote: »
    Never heard tell of Bracken.


    1980 & 1982
    Starred Gabriel Byrne
    Dinny and Miley were also in it - it was a precursor to Glenroe and a follow-on from The Riordans.

    1980 ya that explains it Riordan's must have been 1960s remember clips in B+W.


  • #141
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    1980 ya that explains it Riordan's must have been 1960s remember clips in B+W.


    The Riordans ran from 1965-1979. In colour from 1975 onwards.


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  • #142
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    The Riordans ran from 1965-1979. In colour from 1975 onwards.

    I think it continued on the radio for a while.


  • #143
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,720 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    DarTipp wrote: »
    George (English country posh guy) going missing birdwatching in brazil/south America

    George was in the 'RA?


  • #144
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    I think it continued on the radio for a while.


    Yeah, was revived in the early 80s I think. Short 15 minute episodes. Not great/


  • #145
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,384 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    He had a wife called Ruth.
    They divorced and he married Mary in Rome.

    It was a bit of a grey area legally as was the style at the time.

    Well you couldn’t legally divorce in Ireland until 1996! Unless he was married and divorced abroad.


  • #146
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,384 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    I think there were photos of them in their wedding outfits in the RTE Guide at the time.

    He had two adult sons from his first marriage but I can't remember if they were in it very often. One of the sons is married to the bould Terry Killeen in real life.

    One was a solicitor and in it fairly regularly


  • #147
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Sons were Paul and Matt


  • #148
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    road_high wrote: »
    Well you couldn’t legally divorce in Ireland until 1996! Unless he was married and divorced abroad.

    He divorced in England I think.


  • #149
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Three years on and no sign of this RTE Gold channel, I'd actually watch that. I've zero interest in most of RTEs current output.

    Staying on the subject of Glenroe, over the weekend I was watching an episode of the Irish R.M series one on TG4, originally broadcast I think in January 1983. In a courtroom scene Joe Lynch (Dinny), Mick Lally (Miley) and Robert Carrickford (Stephen Brennan) all appeared together.



  • #150
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/111236222#Comment_111236222

    Yes, there was a rape storyline involving him. Think he went on to murder his brother or the other way around.



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  • #151
    Fallout2022
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Fallout2022


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118964296#Comment_118964296

    He got into some hot water.



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