Cartoon’s €8.85m success to create 60 jobs

Up to 60 jobs have been created at an Irish animation company after the BBC recommissioned a children’s programme.

Twice Bafta-nominated Roy will run on CBBC for a third and fourth series.

The show is filmed as a fly-on-the-wall “mockumentary” and follows Roy, an 11-year-old cartoon boy who lives in Ballyfermot, west Dublin, with a real family and real friends.