'Father and Son' filmed in Co. Wicklow
Wednesday July 01 2009
RTE ONE'S latest summer drama 'Father and Son' aired on Monday night with most of the drama having been shot on location in County Wicklow.
The four-part drama is a co-production between RTE and ITV and is set in Manchester and Dublin. Directed by Brian Kirk ( My Boy Jack, Middletown), the all-star cast includes Dougray Scott ( Mission Impossible II), Stephen Rea ( The Crying Game), Sophie Okonedo ( Hotel Rwanda), John Kavanagh ( The Tudors) and Flora Montgomery ( When Brendan Met Trudy).
Ex-criminal Michael O'Connor (Dougray Scott) returns to Manchester from Ireland with his pregnant girlfriend Ann (Flora Montgomery) in order to save his teenage son Sean from prison.
The vast majority of the series was shot in Dublin and at different locations in the Garden County. The second part of the drama airs on Monday night at 9.30 p.m..
