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TV picks of the week
Holy F**k
Tonight 9.30pm, RTE Two
You wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that the Irish have a wonderfully colourful way with the art of swearing. Perhaps it’s that combination of piety and profanity, religiosity and roguery that produces a heady cocktail of the crude ‘Anglo-Saxonism’ as it was once known, and the pious ejaculation. Ardal O’Hanlon, who had an earful of Fr Jack’s “fecks” throughout his career as Fr Dougal in Father Ted, steers a course through the turbulent sea of blasphemy with the help of Tommy Tiernan, Bob Geldof, Hazel Chu, Lisa McInerney and GAA referee Pat McEnaney. EK