As good as ‘Father Ted’, reckons Sean O’Grady
"It is sometimes remarked that the Troubles in Northern Ireland make for an unpromising backdrop for a sitcom about adolescent kids. Well, yer man’s wrong, as they might say. Derry Girls, returning for a triumphant and exuberant second run, proves that humour, dark or otherwise, can be quarried from even the most unlikely of locations.""While there are plenty of well-turned one-liners, the deeper attraction of Fleabag is schadenfreude.
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