Pauline McLynn and Ardal O’Hanlon reunite for Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything

Pauline McLynn and Ardal O’Hanlon are back together onscreen for their first roles together since the glory days of Father Ted, writes Esther McCarthy

Sheridan Smith, Pauline McLynn and Ardal O’Hanlon in Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything, on Sky Comedy. 

They delivered some of the funniest moments in a TV series that became beloved the world over. Now, more than 27 years after first appearing in the sensation that would become Father Ted, Pauline McLynn and Ardal O’Hanlon are working together again.

The stars are playing the Irish parents of a Manchester girl determined to clean up her act in new TV series Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything. Rosie (Sheridan Smith) is a party girl who loves to overindulge, be it smoking, alcohol or chocolate orange.