Once Ballykissangel had its first airing, how did you know the location was right?
to this question and answer in more detail Well, I’m sometimes a bit of a cynic, but having watched the first six episodes of Ballyk prior to transmission I found them enchanting and funny, there was a truth about them and the village itself felt right. When the first episode went out, I rushed to have a look at the overnight figures to see exactly how many people had watched it and was bowled over that we had exceeded all of our expectations. There was also the enormous success of the publicity campaign with Dervla and Stephen at that stage. Their relationship had become news and everyone else was getting the spin off. There, in one of the papers was a competition to win a trip to Ballykissangel, not Avoca, but Ballykissangel. Those are the things that you associate with ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘All Creations Great and Small’ so doesn’t that now mean that we’re in that league? I think it does. Ballykissangel is still being shown around the world all the time and the e-mails that we re
