Cork actresses among cast announced for new series based on Marian Keyes novels

The first season of The Walsh Sisters based on novels by Marian Keyes is currently in production

BAFTA-nominated Máiréad Tyers (Extraordinary, My Lady Jane, Belfast) plays the fearless baby of the family, Helen, in the new Walsh Sisters comedy drama. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Two Cork actresses are among the cast announced for the new Walsh Sisters comedy drama based on novels by Marian Keyes.

Máiréad Tyers, best known for her role as Jen in the Disney+ series Extraordinary, for which she received a BAFTA nomination, and Stefanie Preissner, best known as the creator of the comedy-drama Can't Cope, Won't Cope, have both been cast alongside Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland, rising talent Caroline Menton of Oddity and Danielle Galligan of House of Guinness and KIN.