John O'Shea

[yapster]

I run an Irish board, and I act upon the posts,pictures myself.I certainly would not look at someones complaint especially if he had a Bohs(1-0) crest beside his name(That was a joke). Yapster has come over here from my board, but he does love his role. When he gets bored here he'll come home to annoy some more folk up over there. I think though he really does believe what he is saying is true.

You at least know that I have been consistent with my opinion on Keane and O´Shea down the years.

[Charlie Darwin]

My God, you've been at this for years?

[Serb]

You at least know that I have been consistent with my opinion on Keane and O´Shea down the years.

Consistently wrong.

[yapster]

Consistently wrong.

no I'm afraid not son...

[Razors left peg]

Cant imagine what CF1989 got banned for since it seems to be ok to come on here consistantly with the specific intention to p1ss off people

[Acornvilla]

he posted penises

[Razors left peg]

he posted penises

down with that sort of thing

[Acornvilla]

down with that sort of thing

careful now

[Razors left peg]

Haha

[yapster]

We got Father Ted finally over here on BBCAmerica and it is a great show. Why didn't RTE make it rather than C4?

[bluesfan]

We got Father Ted finally over here on BBCAmerica and it is a great show. Why didn't RTE make it rather than C4?

Don't think it was ever offered to RTE. The two creators had already been living and working in England for a number of years when they came up with it.

[Acornvilla]

it was originally offered to RTE but they didn't like it so C4 stole in and just as well i think if RTE made it, it wouldn't be as good

[Colbert Report]

It was originally offered to RTE but they were dead scared of offending the religious right in Ireland so they passed on it. This is stated in the DVD commentary.

[bluesfan]

Surprised at that, I'd always thought it was an urban legend about it being offered to RTE. Did the DVD commentary explain why they were going to come back to Ireland to make Father Ted? Mathews and Linehan were doing well in England at the time and returning here sounds like a backward career move.

[geysir]

Don't think it was ever offered to RTE. The two creators had already been living and working in England for a number of years when they came up with it.

It was never rejected by RTE because it was never offered to them. Anything else is urban myth.
It was shown on RTE shortly after ch4 screening.

[Colbert Report]

I'm not sure, I'll re-watch the DVD commentary and post here once I do, probably some time next week.

[Colbert Report]

Perhaps I'm mistaken:

from wikipedia:

Contrary to frequent rumours, Mathews and Linehan did not originally pitch the series to the Irish network RTÉ, but rather offered it directly to Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 in the UK.

[Serb]

You can ask the man himself on Twitter

http://twitter.com/Glinner

Also, O'Shea is on the bench for United today, but sounds like Neville is having a nightmare at right back at the moment.

[John83]

Surprised at that, I'd always thought it was an urban legend about it being offered to RTE. Did the DVD commentary explain why they were going to come back to Ireland to make Father Ted? Mathews and Linehan were doing well in England at the time and returning here sounds like a backward career move.

I've personally heard Linehan deny it was ever offered to RTÉ. He said they just didn't do that sort of thing; there'd have been no point. Now, maybe the official line has changed at some point, so check out that commentary all the same. If it disagrees, that'd be interesting.

[rebelmusic]

Neville was crap at the weekend, and brown is fouling every 2 mins tonight, i'd say Josh is pretty much sorted for right back for the season. Defo best of the 3 (i am of course ignoring the little one)