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 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 ...

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 ...