Glenroe

And Arthur O'Sullivan from Barry Lyndon, and Ruth Durley, who unlike the others are credited.

Quite a few uncredited, and so far unknown Irish actors (like a lot of these films shot here, back then - I remember Jonathan Rigby having great difficulty trying to track down the actors in Vengeance of Fu Manchu when doing his audio commentary, going to Abbey archives and looking through programmes and stuff). The girl playing the daughter, there's a guy in it who really looks like Vic Reeves/Jim Moir, a few other people.

Grim memories of the standard TV choices on a Saturday or Sunday there, particularly the crappiest of crap 1940s and 1950s movies, which didn't do a lot for a young lad in the Dublin suburbs. I did like Gemini Man, the lad who could press a button on his watch to go invisible iirc.

I remember watching that Cinderela movie the Glass Slipper that night. Think I probably watched Gemini Man as well. Didnt see Glenroe as I consciously avoided it for the first few months it was on. I can remember the advance promos and thinking it looked like Emmerdale Farm (RTE had begun showing that earlier in the year)

That would be the equivalent of a 1999 movie today

It seems strange now that Dinny was considered a suspect, given his general image in Glenroe as a loveable rogue. I do remember hints of a dark side to him, like the episode from circa mid 90s that ended appearing to show him shooting Sylvie with a shotgun (followup episode revealed he was shooting a fox.)

Fair point, though it was still sh1te.

Ive just vague memories of Uncle Peter, the character who Cyril Cusack guest starred as circa 85/86. What was the story with him? Did he have some kind of murky past, and whose uncle was he (Mileys?)

I remember an episode of Glenroe where Fr Deveraux inadvertently rented out a porn video and showed it to some of his parishioners, thinking that it was some religious film. I think this was it, shown on October 14th 1990. Its the closest confirmation I can find.

Stephen Brennan ran the video shop, I think that was a short lived venture. Cant remember exactly how Fr Devereux rented out the blue movie but it was obviously disguised as an innocuous religious film.

There's a scene where he puts it on (in his house?) with a group of parishioners.with the camera behind the tv Fr Dev and his group are facing out. Generic "porn movie" type music is heard and Dev reacts in shock. Later on he confronts Stephen and said that the movie was "depraved".

Never realised he was in it. All I can find is that he played a character called Sean Treacy in 1990. The fact that he never seems to talk about it would suggest it wasn't his finest acting moment

In June 2010 I was sitting outside the Sandymount House having a pint with a friend and playing with my recently purchased DSLR camera.
I was taking photos of the street in Sandymount and a car passed as I took a photo. I believe I may have inadvertently snapped a photo of the late Robert Carrickford who as we all know played Stephen Brennan in Glenroe.

Does anyone have the cast list for the London eps? The eps were on yt, but credits cut.