Even in the rain ‘Cork still looks like a ride’ on set of The Young Offenders

You can have the backing of the BBC and the goodwill of a city behind you — but it doesn’t mean the Irish weather will be on your side.

And so the two stars of The Young Offenders found themselves huddled in the rain for much of the morning’s shoot at the back of a housing estate in Mayfield on the northside of Cork.

When they were making the original film version, bad weather would probably have prompted actors Alex Murphy and Chris Walley, along with the rest of the small crew, to take a break from filming and tuck into the sandwiches that largely provided the payment for most of them.