It comes as a joy - and even a little bit of a relief - when Pauline McLynn sits down for our interview and orders a proper pot of Irish breakfast tea.

"I can stop anytime I want..."

Father Ted co-creator Arthur Matthews has said that the first draft script for the highly anticipated, Pope Ted, has been written.

Sometimes life just imitates art. The art was the Tea Master episode of Father Ted when Ted gives Mrs Doyle an automated tea-maker.

"Ah, sure you'll have one."

The man behind Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd, Graham Linehan, - has just tweeted he’s cancer free having been given the all-clear.

’God Ted look at that.....there’s a dent in the car’.

Ardal O’Hanlon has revealed he had to wear a special wig for the second series of Father Ted after getting a spur-of-the-moment haircut for his wedding, writes Linda McGrory.

The Father Ted intro is intensely familiar - and precious - to all of us and now that seemingly everyone has a drone these days, we can all start recreating it.

Hundreds of die-hard Father Ted fans will descend on the Aran Island of Inishmore today for Tedfest, a festival dedicated to the cult TV series.

It’s a competition Father Ted would be proud of.

A new app is testing people's knowledge on one of Ireland's best loved TV shows.

Could Ardal O’Hanlon’s new comedy on Sky really exorcise the ghosts of Father Ted? He’s not bothered either way, writes Keeley Bolger

"I'm not going to let Parkinson's beat me. I'm just not that kind of person".

Just how did a Japanese artist begin drawing characters from Father Ted and publishing them every day? Noel Baker finds out from Dublin-based sketcher Shota Kotake

Vodafone Comedy festival launch #celebratingdermot

That’s 20 years of laughs, 20 years of our favourite duo, 20 years of lovely girls with lovely bottoms and 20,000 cups of tea.

Graham Dwyer was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Elaine O’Hara, leaders of seveal EU nations are to meet to discuss the emigrant crisis in the Mediterranean, ACDC drummer Phil Rudd could face up to 7 years in prison after pleading guilty to threatening to kill and possession of drugs and Happy Birthday Father Ted . These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Help us find Ireland's favourite Father Ted episode.

And they're a bit bemused by the lyrics to 'My Lovely horse'. As you would be.

Single men are waiting to chat all over Ireland apparently.

Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on … have a go

They may appear like they’ve had the Fr Ted treatment, but some of these vintage movie posters are testament to the social censorship of 1950s and 1960s Ireland.

From Dracula to Fr Ted and Boyzone, we have devised some of the most brilliant, but often annoying, things on the planet, says John Daly.

One of the creators of 'Father Ted' is working on a new sitcom that is being co-produced by RTÉ and the BBC.