1 week Ago By Helen Bruce
An Irish wedding in Spain is the setting for a brand-new RTÉ comedy drama, with a stellar Irish cast. Playing the priest, Love/Hate’s Tom Vaughan-Lawlor [Nidge] joins Justine Mitchell of Derry Girls as mother of the bride, Jason O’Mara of Agents of SHIELD as father of the bride and India Mullen of Say Nothing as a wedding guest. Jason O’Mara.
Pic: Brian McEvoyThe show is titled These Sacred Vows and starts production on location in Tenerife this week. It is written and directed by Dubliner and award-winning screenwriter John Butler, and focuses on an Irish wedding in Spain involving a week of day-drinking and chaotic nights where secret fears, jealousy and desire bubble to the surface. India Mullen.
Pic: Element Pictures/Enda Bowe/BBCThe series opens the morning after the wedding, when a priest’s body is found face-down in the pool of the young guests’ villa. Over the course of six episodes, the action will jump back in time to revisit the key events of a wild previous week, each from the perspective of a different character. Two-time Big Brother star issues warning ahead of new series of iconic show Butler, 52, said: ‘Irish weddings are unique – and uniquely mad – and can be related to by everyone because, as with vermin, you’re never too far away from the looming spectre of someone’s big day.
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