Father Ted - Speed 3

Father Ted with all its extreme silliness was one of our favourite sitcoms. Set on Craggy Island, a fictional and god forsaken spot island off the Irish coast , it featured three dysfunctional priests: Father Ted Crilley, who had embezzled money for the funds to send a child to Lourdes (or perhaps it was resting in his account (although he swore the funds were just resting in his account); Father Dougal who would lose a thinking contest with a piece of lichen and Father Jack Hackett, a whiskey priest (and a brandy, beer and vodka priest too)



This episode is a spoof on the Speed movies. Pat Mustard, an amorous milkman loses his job because of Ted. Dougal takes on the milk round but Mustard has a terrible revenge in store. The episode features, a mass on a trailer a brick and a lot of hairy babies.. Enjoy!



Sadly Father Ted ended after three series and a Christmas special. The death of Dermot Morgan (who played Father Ted) shortly after the final series means that it will never return.

Drink! Feck! Girls! Arse!

The weekend was not only about rugby: drunken priests and aspiring Mrs Doyles converged on Aran island of Inis Mor to mark the occasion of the first Father Ted festival.

There had been some controversy over which island had the right to call itself Craggy Island another Aran island, Inis Oirr, believed it had a greater claim than Inis Mor as the opening sequence contains a shot of the Plassey, a merchant ship wrecked there. In the end the the matter was settled by a five a side football match which Inis Mor won 2-0.

The festival included a Lovely Girls contest, a Hide a Nun and Seek and a Craggy Island Song for Europe contest. Father Jack’s sage words "Drink! Feck! Girls!" were intoned as if a prayer (and "Arse biscuits" too I would hope)

Oh to have been there!


If you are reading this and have no idea what I am talking about, Father Ted was a surreal sitcom based on an Island of the coast of Ireland and featuring three dysfunctional priests and a half insane housekeeper. It was one of the funniest things ever shown on tv.