Ros na Run

[lesbiassparrow]

I have recently got a bit obsessed with the Irish language soap opera Ros na Run. It is not actually good or anything but I still cannot stop watching it (think Coronation Street on a very low budget). It's set in the West of Ireland (Spiddeal, I think; anyway, near Galway) and has devious fathers who just got out of jail, CD pirates, wife-beaters, a man who has just been arrested for killing his wife in a mercy killing, a mad bride-to-be, and a love-lorn priest. Though why cannot I not find the episode where the priest declares his love for one of his parishoners? TnaG, why is it not on your web site? Do you want to torment me with never seeing their illicit love?

I am sad that I AM THE ONLY PERSON ON LIVEJOURNAL WHO LISTS ROS NA RUN AS ONE OF THEIR INTERESTS.

Should anyone feel compelled to watch it (or just to hear what Irish sounds like): you can go here: http://www.tg4.ie/Webt/webt.htm

Click on web tv and then pick 'drama' at the side. Go on, go on, go on.....

Hey, at least it's better than that scifi programme they made a while back. That was a bit disturbingly horrible, with special effects worse than Who in its leaner years.

Comments

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

You can get Irish language television online? *boggles* Why did I not know this before? <3

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It's fairly recent - they used to charge for access to the service but now they've started giving it away free. Sadly none of their dubbed movies can be got that way, but anything that is airing now is up there.

I wish they had archives - they had some terrible sci fi thing up going on in the summer that I wouldn't mind seeing again. Even if it was awful. And made for about 20 euro.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

And: watch Ros na Run! It's excellent. At the very least you will have chur ar bith drilled in your head. And Nil fhois agam.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard about it yet, but O MY POOR HEART - mercy killings! Illicit love!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I find it not so bad but mainly because I haven't heard Irish in so long. Though I really think the priest is rather attractive. Um, right... *slinks away now*