Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope: How the story of a girl from Cork became a massive Irish TV hit

Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope is back for a second run, and its stars tell Ed Power how the tale of a girl from Mallow became one of the biggest hits on Irish TV.

SEÁNA KERSLAKE had her first inkling that her life had changed when a woman stopped her in the street to ask for a selfie. “She’d approached me for directions. Then she said, ‘My boyfriend will be here in five minutes — can we get a photograph’?”