TV review: The Walsh Sisters is a Sunday night hug

A funny and relatable slice of Irish middle-class life — exactly what we’ve come to expect from Marian Keyes

Jay Duffy stars as Luke and Caroline Menton as Rachel in the TV adaption of The Walsh Sisters, starting on RTÉ One this Sunday at 9.30pm

The Walsh Sisters (RTÉ One and RTÉ Player) isn’t afraid of cliché. Middle-class Dublin family, five sisters, the addicted one, the matronly one, the unhappily divorced one, the happily-engaged-but-not-for-long-one, and the young one still living at home. They’re all here in this flashy new RTE drama based on the series of books by Marian Keyes.

But there is nothing wrong with cliché when it’s well done. And this is well done. This has a lot to do with Stefanie Preissner, who writes and acts here. I’d call her a national treasure but that’s a kind of retirement honour for old-aged actors.