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The cast of Red Rock TV3

More than 1 million British viewers watch Red Rock debut on the BBC

The homegrown drama is being broadcast in a midday slot.

HOMEGROWN DRAMA RED Rock has had a strong first outing on British TV.

Broadcast for the first time on BBC One yesterday the show pulled in an average 1.1 million viewers, giving it a 18.6% share of the available viewing audience.

The crime drama is being broadcast daily in the 1.45pm slot that had previously been occupied by medical drama Doctors.

It was announced back in April that the British state broadcaster would be picking up Red Rock.

The programme is set in the fictional town of Red Rock and focuses on the activities of the Hennessys and the Kielys, and the efforts of the gardaí to come between the two.

PES 11 Red Rock at the BBC Cathy Belton (who plays Patricia Hennessy) and Sean Mahon (who plays Sergeant Brian McGonigle) pictured outside the BBC Paul Edwards / TV3 Ireland Paul Edwards / TV3 Ireland / TV3 Ireland

Speaking about the broadcast figures TV3 Group’s managing director Pat Kiely said: “These audience numbers show that great Irish television content will travel. They also demonstrate the export potential for the Irish production industry.”

We are delighted that viewers in the UK have taken to Red Rock so quickly.

Red Rock’s follows in the footsteps of crime drama Love/Hate in proving popular in front of UK audiences.

The first two series of the programme were given UK-wide distribution by Channel 5.

Read: Red Rock set to make its debut on BBC1

Also: UTV Ireland and TV3 will soon be part of one big company. What will that mean for viewers?

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    Sep 29th 2020, 12:15 AM

    This is welcome.

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    Mute Peter Denham
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    Sep 29th 2020, 12:18 AM

    @Peter Denham: I have seen first hand the pain, fear and confusion that comes with the latter stages of terminal illness. Let people chose when to go.

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    Mute Tony Gordon
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    Sep 29th 2020, 12:21 AM

    @Peter Denham: more than welcome, should have been available a long time ago

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    Mute Seán O'Loughlin
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    Sep 29th 2020, 1:00 AM

    I believe this should become legal.

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    Mute Sam Greene
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    Sep 29th 2020, 1:12 AM

    My sister passed away with motor nurone disease. She talked about how she wished she could choose the time to go, broke our hearts to see a beautiful intelligent woman suffer so much. It was her life, should have been her choice.

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    Mute EillieEs
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    Sep 29th 2020, 6:55 AM

    @Sam Greene: it’s a horrible illness, must have been heartbreaking to see your sister suffer. Hope you’re doing ok

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    Mute Ian Hoey
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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:35 AM

    @Sam Greene: Such a cruel cruel illness. I absolutely agree that people should have the right to choose.

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    Mute Paul Mc
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    Sep 29th 2020, 12:27 AM

    About time, If anyone has been with parents or friends on their death bed suffering from excruciating pain ,it’s not nice to watch and it’s only correct that people of sound mind should be giving the option of going asleep with a good dose of morphine.

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    Mute PaulOMahoney Irish
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    Sep 29th 2020, 7:44 AM

    As now a cancer survivor I must say this needs to happen. I have witnessed the pain of people watching loved ones slowly having less life in them and thats very difficult.
    Obviously this should be the patients choice if my cancer comes back I have decided with my wife’s approval not to seek further treatment and be allowed to pass, we have already made enquiries in Europe for assisted death. I’d rather be here in my country.
    Its a difficult decision and I don’t think anyone takes it lightly, no doubt there will be headbangers posting claptrap on this but remember its my body, my life and my decision.
    Now to the garden

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    Mute Padraig Corcoran
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    Sep 29th 2020, 12:21 AM

    Gino Kenny did not even know the details that are in the bill in a recent radio interview. He insisted that details were included that simply are not. No doubt it will pass as we seen how our elected politicians let what happened occur in the nursing homes recently.

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    Mute Paul Smith
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    Sep 29th 2020, 1:41 AM

    @Padraig Corcoran: Did am essay in my GCSE religion that I was all for euthanasia, best essay I ever wrote and got an F. Repeated it the following year, same question. Said I was totally against it. Got an A. Catholic schools don’t reflect people’s real opinions. If I was suffering I would like to go in peace.

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    Mute EillieEs
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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:09 AM

    @Padraig Corcoran: I didn’t hear the interview, what details did he get wrong?

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:31 AM

    @EillieEs: You should look it up. With Pat Kenny I think. He insisted on numerous occasions the patient would need to be in unbearable pain which his opposite in the interview pointed it it was not.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:49 AM

    @Padraig Corcoran:
    I dont know anything about this Gino Kenny chap but I do think very strongly that you are missing totally the point of all this and throwaway comments re a pandemic and what the government is and was trying to do even though they didnt manage to know everything is comparing syringes and saucepans.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 5:17 PM

    @Mary N. Cooke: Hey Mary I am pretty sure you don’t know me so you don’t know that how the government “looked after” those in our nursing homes during this pandemic is a throw away comment at all. Yes there is a pandemic sweeping the world right now yet they have time to put something like this forward. You should listen to the interview then read the Bill and make your own conclusions.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 7:56 AM

    Delighted to see this bill being introduced- time to allow people a modicum of dignity and relief from suffering. As some have said, we treat animals better than humans when they’re in terrible pain and suffering.

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    Feb 7th 2021, 3:01 AM

    @Scorcher Bois Gris: Certainly animals are treated much better than children. As someone tortured as a child, never received any help. Still don’t no government help, crippled physically and emotionally. While old torturers get preferential vaccines.Fascinating. Look forward to being not on planet anymore.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 4:25 AM

    The right to conscientious objection & non-participation is enshrined in the Irish constitution, and the EU and UN declarations on human rights. Nonetheless, this right was specifically denied to pharmacists in the termination of pregnancy act. If our government holds true to form we will again be denied our rights in this act. It would be nice if society stopped treating us like mindless vending machines and recognised what we bring to the table in caring for the sick and dying. The profession will continue to loose caring professionals if you don’t.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 10:09 AM

    My husband died in 2015 when our little girls were 3 and 5….he died slowly and in uncontrollable pain despite the wonderful support from the palliative care team and the pain management consultant. The bill must pass. No one should be screaming in pain in their final days.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 11:43 AM

    @Susan Scanlan: Brave woman. Susan I really hope you have found a little bit of peace in your life and your girls are thriving.
    As I posted earlier I too hope that this bill passes, your husband is one of many many who needlessly suffered.

    Take care

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    Sep 29th 2020, 1:06 PM

    @PaulOMahoney Irish awww thanks, and after a horrific couple of years I picked myself up, left my job, moved house to the country side and am now a 4th year student in psychotherapy

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    Sep 29th 2020, 1:06 PM

    @PaulOMahoney Irish awww thanks, and after a horrific couple of years I picked myself up, left my job, moved house to the country side and am now a 4th year student in psychotherapy

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    Sep 29th 2020, 1:06 PM

    @PaulOMahoney Irish awww thanks, and after a horrific couple of years I picked myself up, left my job, moved house to the country side and am now a 4th year student in psychotherapy

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    Sep 29th 2020, 6:42 AM

    Worst idea since repealing the 8th.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 7:13 AM

    @Ludie Creech: Watch your father die a slow, agonising death of cancer over the course of months, withering away before your eyes, growing more and more resistant to morphine until eventually he’s taking a dose that would knock out a rhino just to manage the pain and then tell me what a terrible idea it is.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 7:25 AM

    @Ludie Creech: what Colm said

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    Sep 29th 2020, 7:47 AM

    @Ludie Creech: Best idea since repealing the 8th more like.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 7:48 AM

    @Ludie Creech: repealing the with was a great idea. And you cant change that by whining.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:20 AM

    @Ludie Creech: the one time dominant Catholic Church in Ireland is on its knees. Chin up. Time to move into the current era, padre.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 10:14 AM

    @Colm Garvey: my husband died slowly and horribly and despite 5 pain pumps he was still suffering terribly…….I’m so sorry your Dad suffered the same. This bill is full of compassion….your so right, people don’t understand

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    Sep 29th 2020, 10:18 AM

    @Ludie Creech: I watched my husband die slowly and in horrific pain and despite the support of pain management consultants and the palliative care team attaching 5 morphine pumps he still screamed. This bill is not a bad idea. I do however feel the elderly and vulnerable need to be protected, but if your terminally ill and screaming in pain why should that continue?

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:16 PM

    @JustBEERbarry: ah, yes. Progress. All in the name of progress.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:16 PM

    @JustBEERbarry: and, by the way, no love lost for the Catholic Church. My comment is merely based on a high regard for the sanctity of life.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:19 PM

    @Susan Scanlan: Susan, I am so very sorry for your loss, and the grief you had to endure. Ultimately, however, I’m a staunch defender of the sanctity of life- all life- unborn, and that which is coming to an end. God is the giver of life, and man should stand clear of “playing God” in these situations. I truly am sorry for your and your family’s immeasurable pain.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:19 PM

    @Dearbhla O Reilly: oh, ok.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:22 PM

    @Colm Garvey: Colm, I’m very sorry for your loss. I too have endured watching loved ones waste away. However, I hold that life is precious, and given by God, and to be ended only by God, whether unborn or ending due to disease or illness. Again, I’m deeply sorry for your pain and loss watching your loved one suffer.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:43 AM

    I think it’s a no brainer that this should pass. If you don’t agree with it, you won’t use the option. Everyone should have the right to choose. If this goes to a referendum, it will be unanimously passed.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:44 AM

    If it’s what someone wants, they should be allowed access to it. There should be nothing or no one stopping them.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:10 AM

    What TD was elected on this platform? None ! Because the majority of people don’t support it. Therefore why should such a bill be presented in the Dail…

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:36 AM

    @London-Irish Senator: the majority don’t support it? Really? Let’s see.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 10:23 AM

    @London-Irish Senator: my husband died slowly and screaming in uncontrollable pain. Despite 5 morphine pain pumps attached to him and a team of pain management professionals caring for him. This bill must pass

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:14 AM

    What is the difference between the pain torment and suffering experienced by a young person contemplating suicide and an older person thinking the same? There is no real compassion in finishing off the elderly while we bemoan the horror of suicide generally

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:35 AM

    @Sean Salmon: Don’t think they’re talking about a healthy person that’s tired of living or is depressed. It’s about someone with a terminal illness that’s going to die anyway. This way, they can be spared the indignity and pain of having a horrendous lead up to their death.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:59 AM

    @Sean Salmon: Try to understand what the article is saying. Knee-jerk reactions are rarely intelligent.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 10:12 AM

    @Sean Salmon: it’s not just elderly, my husband died in 2015 , the pain became utterly uncontrollable and despite the 5 pain pumps attached to him he still screamed…..and screamed……the elderly and vulnerable who are not in uncontrollable pain should be protected. But no soul should die how Colm did.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 10:59 AM

    @Susan Scanlan: I accept that uncontrollable pain is horrid but if you think that this bill will not have massive abuse or become more liberal as time passes. Look at Canada

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    Sep 29th 2020, 11:01 AM

    @Benny McHale: a seriously depressed person is not a healthy person.

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    Feb 7th 2021, 3:13 AM

    @Sean Salmon: “Finishing off ” the elderly…I was tortured by birth giver half my life, crippled, alone, yet the female who did this is “entitled” to vaccine before me…WHO is being finished off, I wonder ???

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:11 AM

    If breaking the commandment thou shall not kill is a mortal sin which would result in a person going to hell then it would not be considered compassionate to help someone to escape a short period of suffering in this life compared to eternal suffering in the next

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:26 AM

    @Tom Mullally: I’m not religious, I’d like the choice

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    Sep 29th 2020, 8:33 AM

    @Tom Mullally: That’s your belief, not everyones. You’re entitled to have your own thoughts. You are entitled to follow whichever of the thousands of religions there are that you like. But the days of religion bring the prime argument in decision making are no more.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 9:22 AM

    @Tom Mullally: here we go again, the anti choice brigade are up

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    Sep 29th 2020, 11:47 AM

    @Tom Mullally: Theres alway the few……kindly remove you nose from other peoples lives. Christianity has a lot more to give than 10 commandments that were sent down, allegedly, long before Christ was on this earth.
    Please let us control our lives, its a Christian thing to do.

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    Sep 29th 2020, 1:31 PM

    @PaulOMahoney Irish: it’s the Christian thing to not just save ourselves from going to hell but to try to stop others going there.

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    Sep 30th 2020, 12:48 PM

    Have seen people suffer with dementia and know i do not want to suffer like that, should be allowed put it in your will should there be no cure that you wish to be helped pass away.

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    Oct 8th 2020, 10:22 PM

    @marianne ryan: unfortunately a dementia diagnosis will prevent people from availing of this

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