Row with German embassy almost finishes Fair City

IT read like a script from a popular TV soap — neighbours from hell, late-night noise and a legal wrangle that threatened to turn nasty.

But it was far from fiction and at stake was Ireland’s most popular TV show Fair City.

What began as an inconspicuous letter from the German Embassy, developed into a row that could have stopped the cameras rolling on the streets of Carrigstown, much to the disappointment of the show’s nightly 500,000 viewers.