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The Blackrock Girl is Lucy Gannon’s two part drama about Finn, who appears in a quiet rural village in Ireland, bringing with her the assumed (the locals assume) glamour of the big city. She comes from Blackrock but sometimes she doesn’t sound as if she does. But, she explains, she spent a few years as a child over the border in Omagh and so her accent has become a bit strangled and anyway, after a lifetime nursing overseas, in Africa and India, devoting herself to the poor and needy, it’s not surprising her accent is slightly off kilter sometimes. Exhausted she returns to Ireland deciding to start a new life and this is how she finds herself in this charming friendly Irish rural village of Bridesway. Approaching life with an air of entitlement and yet warmth she is, very definitely, likeable. She has charisma, and makes friends easily. She’s interested in people, tolerant, helpful. She’s just plain NICE.

But Finn is broke. She’s never nursed a single person in her whole life, although she has often held the hands of the dying. Her name used to be Moira, then Eileen, then Mary, Frances and now Theresa. She’s wanted in England, Scotland and Cyprus, for fraud, theft and extortion.

Episode Two
Local OAP has been lured by Theresa Finn and he is now a changed man. He is clean and tidy and he is happy with his relationship with Finn. The Postmistress Evie Bourne is growing slightly concerned however that Charles has withdrawn a large amount of cash recently but puts it down to the fact that he is happy with Finn and she is sprucing up. Retired Policeman Martin, still unsettled by the fact that Finn has not yet paid anyone for the works done on the Manse house or for the catering and arrangements for the Garden Party she decided to hold to get to celebrate both old and new friends (the old never turned up!), Martin gets in touch with a former colleague to do a bit of enquiring…

Finn is beginning to get restless and decides she needs to go away for a few days to Dublin on her own and whilst she is gone The Manse catches fire…….
Was it deliberate, was it arson………. Martin finds out the truth.

Martin eventually convinces Evie that Finn is a bad ‘un and she in turn convinces the rest of the village. They together defend Charles (against his will) and thwart Finn, but she makes a last desperate attempt to get Charles’ money, and Evie and Martin link arms to destroy her plan and to run her out.

Finn has never nursed a single person in her whole life, although she has often held the hands of the dying. Her name used to be Moira, then Eileen, then Mary, Frances and now Theresa. She’s wanted in England, Scotland and Cyprus, for fraud, theft and extortion.
Charles is left broken hearted.

Evie and Martin fall in love and Bridesway is back to how it should be.

Finn is played by Fenella Woolgar
Ellen ….. Marion O’Dwyer
Evie ….. Pauline McLynn
Martin ….. Des McAleer
Charles ….. Jonathan coy
Dave ….. Jamie Beamish
Beth ….. Ell Potter

Produced by Celia DeWolff for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland

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