Mrs Brown pulls in €1.6m profit for Brendan O’Carroll firm

The runaway success of Brendan O’Carroll’s alter ego Agnes Brown last year resulted in accumulated profits at his main firm climbing to more than €1.6m.

New accounts filed show that O’Carroll’s firm, Mrs Browns Boys Ltd, increased its accumulated profits by just over €700,000 going from €959,404 to €1.66m in the 12 months to the end of December 2015.

Mr O’Carroll’s creation, Mrs Brown’s Boys, was again a Christmas ratings winner in Ireland and Britain with 9m viewers watching the Christmas Day edition of the comedy series on the BBC. And on RTÉ, Mrs Brown proved to be the queen of Christmas television yet again by pulling in the most viewers over the festive period for the sixth year in a row with an average of 607,500 viewers tuning in on Christmas Day.