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IRISH TELEVISION CAME home victorious from the Bafta TV awards last night with two wins each for Derry Girls and Bad Sisters.
Derry Girls came away from the ceremony with accolades that saw creator Lisa McGee collected the award for Best Scripted comedy and actress Siobhan McSweeney winning Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme for her role as Sister Michael.
Bad Sisters also took home two awards – one for Best Drama Series and another for actress Anne-Marie Duff for her performance in the show.
The awards took place yesterday evening at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Accepting her award in a humorous and fast-paced speech but heartfelt, McSweeney said: “To the people in Derry, thank you taking me into your hearts and your living rooms.
“I am daily impressed with how you encompass the spirit of compromise and resilience despite the indignities, ignorance and stupidity of your so-called leaders in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster.
“In the words of my beloved Sister Michael, ‘it’s time they started to wise up’.”
“As my mother lay dying in the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork, one of the very last things she said to me was would I not consider retraining as a teacher?,” McSweeney told the audience.
“If she could see me now, getting a Bafta for playing a teacher – joke’s on you, Mam!” she quipped.
Elsewhere, Channel 4’s I am Ruth, which explores the relationship young people have with technology, won in the Single Drama Category.
Ben Whishaw and Kate Winslet won the top acting prizes of the night.
Winslet won the best actress award for her performance in I Am Ruth, which sees a mother and her real-life daughter Mia Threapleton work through emotional turmoil on-screen, while James Bond and Paddington star Whishaw collected a top award for his performance as a doctor in BBC series This Is Going To Hurt.
Additional reporting by Press Association
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How would anything fall from a moving car on the M2 unless it was on the roof rack sounds a bit dodgy to me something just doesn’t add up .
@Fran Riley: And this part:
“This afternoon, it was confirmed that some of the outstanding pages, which contained details of some officers and staff, have not yet been recovered”
That would suggest that item was a paper notebook, or notepad, not a computer notebook.
But, as you say, how on Earth could both a paper notebook and a laptop computer fall from a moving vehicle.
(Mind you, I once did something very stupid myself, putting an object on the roof on my car and then driving away. Interestingly, it was still there on the roof when I arrived at my destination.)
@Fran Riley: Sure didn’t the Gardai lose a bag load of guns and ammo when it fell out of the back of a cop car on, was it, Harcourt Street, a couple of years ago and kept on driving.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: You just wrote the the biggest load of gumpf here. Why don’t you pretend to yourself it’s Hunter Biden’s laptop? Fake the story saying it fell out of a hooker’s Paul McGrath – (not that you’d know what that is).
@The Irish love this shy….: The story concerning the guards is true…A machine gun and ammunition fell out of their car. A member of the public found it…Open to correction but the same thing happened again about a year later…Think Dick Springs escort lost gu s in Kerry when they crashed the car….you can Google it.
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I smell something…and it ain’t Chanel No 5
They lost the list of people whom they were supposed to inform them of the previous data breach..
Probably get lambasted for this but why are what everyone calls terrorists usually the people that are from the country that has been invaded?
Fair play to the justice system in the 6 counties, they act quick on these sort of things. Down here we had garda commissioners losing phone, laptops and all sorts, and nothing was ever investigated.
And the most sickening irony is sight of a Provo murderer pretending to care about police
@Roj Blake: 1978 called. They want your entire repertoire back
@Roj Blake: He didn’t murder any provos, wrong again.
Headline would have the reader think this was in connection to the PSNI pdf document leak.
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