Rasai na Gaillimhe attracts large audiences on TG4
Rásaí na Gaillimhe, the new TG4 series directed by Robert Quinn has been receiving critcal praise and large audience figures since it first aired last month.On Wednesday 23rd September 90,000 viewers tuned in to watch the first episode which surpassed the figures of any prior TG4 commissioned drama.
Rásaí na Gaillimhe (The Galway Races) which stars Don Whycherley, Tomas O'Suilleabhán, Ruth Bradley, Owen Roe and Frankie McCafferty follows the fortunes of a disparate yet intricately connected group of characters through an exciting race week. Each episode is based on a different deadly sin of Pride, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Wrath and Greed.
It has been garnering good reviews with Culture Magazine in the Sunday Times describing the story as "as fresh as this morning's horse droppings, unfolding in a world where race-goers' houses are being repossessed and the Fianna Fail hospitality tent has been folded away" while Don Wycherley is described as stealing the show as Ultan Keane, "a slimeball government minister with a boundless appetite for other men's money and indeed wives".
Produced by Eoin Holmes and Tricia Perrott for Great Western Films, the series was written by James Phelan and was funded by TG4, the Irish Film Board and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.
Rásaí na Gaillimhe airs on Wednesdays at 9.30pm on TG4.