The Dry

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The Dry review: Raise a glass for a fun tale of a recovering alcoholic (Irish Examiner)

The Dry on RTÉ One manages to provide plenty laughs in its take on the complicated Irish relationship with alcohol.

- Julie Jay, @juliejaycomedy, is a comedian, MC and writer. Sadly, much like the fifth Beatle or Matthew Perry’s mate who turned down the part of Chandler Bing, I will have to live in the knowledge that this was the one that got away. Full disclosure: having auditioned and failed to get a part for The Dry, I was determined to hate it.

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The Dry: A comedy about addiction that's all too easy to give up (The Irish Times)

“An Irish Fleabag”, “Marian Keyes Meets Normal People”. When Element's Dublin-set dramedy The Dry (RTÉ One, 9.35pm) debuted last year on UK streaming ...

She is played by Belfast actor Róisín Gallagher, who gets the aspirational Dublin accent right yet doesn’t sell us on Siobhán – sorry “Shiv” – as a woman all at sea. The real calamities are the rest of her family. When Element’s Dublin-set dramedy The Dry (RTÉ One, 9.35pm) debuted last year on UK streaming service, Britbox, it was heralded as a mish-mash of familiar influences.

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RTE's The Dry's Roisin Gallagher, sudden death of her father ... (RSVP Live)

Belfast-born actor Roisin Gallagher hit our screens as The Dry's Shiv Sheridan on Wednesday night but not much is known about the actor in her life away ...

Shiv is the 'black sheep' of the Sheridan family who has been living a party-fuelled lifestyle in England for 10 years. "As an actress it's just a complete gift. But who is the leading lady Roisin Gallagher? [signing up to our newsletter](https://www.rsvplive.ie/newsletter-preference-centre/) "I felt really connected to Shiv and what she had to say and the way she had to say it – and the use of humour in the script, I felt really like I knew what that was and I'd heard it before and in a sense was experiencing some of the things that she was experiencing." [TV](https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/tv-film/) project, Roisin said she knew it was meant to be from the very start:

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Meet Nancy Harris – the award-winning Irish playwright and ... (image.ie)

The eight-part television series stars Roisin Gallagher as Shiv, a woman recovering from alcoholism who returns home to Dublin from London to face a family who ...

It was important to find all the right people, so that it wasn’t going to be changed from what we wanted to make, which was essentially a show about a family… I was so nervous about handing it over and then I just had the perfect person who’s the most wonderful collaborator. I don’t really belong here and I don’t really belong there. character and image – I always start with an image when I think of a story. I was thinking, are we going to find someone who can be funny and deep and sad and messy? I felt it was important that the older characters were as interesting and dynamic and alive and rebellious as the younger ones.

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