Fair dues: City celebrates 2,000th episode

DESPITE being at the centre of recent gangland shootings, it was all smiles in the fictitious suburb of Carrigstown yesterday as the cast and crew of Fair City gathered to celebrate the 2,000th episode of the popular soap.

Real champagne was being poured for once in the fictitious pub, McCoy’s, as the close-knit community of actors and production staff toasted the enduring success of the series.

Fair City’s executive producer, Niall Mathews, noted that it had taken 12 years to clock up 1,000 episodes but only five years to reach its second major landmark, as a result of increasing the number of weekly episodes from two to four.