Behind the scenes at Ros na Rún
To a television set novice like myself, this looks like a typical town in the West of Ireland. And yet, behind the facade of Loinnir, the local beautician’s in Ros na Rún, there is nobody getting their nails done; nobody is laying on a bet behind the shop front of the local bookies, Mulholland’s, and it is unlikely that taxi company, Luas na Run, will get you home from a night out. The Denny rashers in the local Centra? Facsimiles, just paper. The Dairy Milks, Crunchies, the Fruit & Nuts? Not a calorie in sight, none of it is real.
Even the Top garage, replete with pumps, pints of oil and a hand towel dispenser couldn’t give you a drop of petrol if you needed it. Nonetheless, the rooms behind its false front are in something of a mess. Paint pots, empty beer cans, hard hats, helmets and even a basketball — all flung in a seemingly chaotic heap in what turns out to be the rooms of the design team.
