Set on the fictional Craggy Island off Ireland’s west coast, Father Ted, played by Dermot Morgan, lives with fellow priests Father Jack Hackett and Fr Dougal McGuire in a parochial house.

The series, with Ardal O'Hanlon as Father Dougal, Dermot Morgan as Ted and Pauline McLynn as the priests' housekeeper, Mrs Doyle, may have been inspired by John B Keane's Moll, also ...

The programme featured a candid camera pieces by Murphy himself, with parody songs and comedy sketches by Twink, Dermot Morgan and Fran Dempsey, as well as a serious studio interview. The show ...