From The Young Offenders to Chewing Gum - Pat Fitzpatrick's take on this week's TV

From The Young Offenders to Chewing Gum - Pat Fitzpatrick's take on this week's TV
The Young Offenders Picture: Miki Barlok

All the great comedies go back to Last of the Summer Wine, which ran on the BBC from 1973 to 2010. Series 3 of The Young Offenders (RTE One, Friday, 9:35pm) was back this week and the same similarities were there. 

Instead of three old guys pushing a wheel up a hill in a no-horse Yorkshire town, we have three young guys robbing tellies on Blarney Street in Cork. But both shows were about the same thing – men messing around.

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