RTÉ One It’s an ill wind that blows no good and Sarah is using her missing/dead daughter as an excuse to engage in reckless casual sex. She first of all heartlessly sticks it to Ben and then hooks up with some other dude called Mark (Ronan Leahy). A heartbroken Ben throws himself into the world of... Read More

RTÉ One/BBC4 On this week’s exploration of buggered Irish teenagers it’s Day One and Amber goes into town to meet Manga_Boy24 (Andrew Mullan) her borefriend or whatever the hell he is. Along the way she bumps into Squeak (Stephen Jones) the prison scrote who knew dead O’Donoghue. It’s only a brief encounter but like all... Read More

RTÉ One/BBC4 Let’s explore Amber further shall we? This episode is from piss poor journalist Maeve‘s perspective and we discover early on her love for talking to prison weirdos about little girls. That ratty scrote O’Donoghue was in the general area when Amber disappeared and is currently doing time for driving offences after one pissed drag ride... Read More

RTÉ One/BBC4 There’s nothing modern TV drama likes more than abducting or snuffing a teenager so it’s natural enough that the Irish would want to get in on this as well. In RTÉ One’s Amber the sacrificial lamb is Amber Bailey (Lauryn Canny) a 14 year old artsy chicklette, certainly not square but not officiously rebellious... Read More