"Pure Mule" (2005) TV series 2005-????

Writer:

Eugene O'Brien (writer)

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

6 September 2005 (Ireland)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Each of the episodes is a self-contained story focusing on the weekend of one particular character from a Friday until a Monday morning...

Awards:

5 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Charlene McKenna	...	Jennifer / ... (6 episodes, 2005)
Simone Kirby	...	Geraldine Grehan (6 episodes, 2005)
Garrett Lombard	...	Scobie Donoghue (5 episodes, 2005)
Tom Murphy	...	Shamie Donoghue (5 episodes, 2005)
Eileen Walsh	...	Therese / ... (5 episodes, 2005)
Brian Doherty	...	Eamonn Freeman (5 episodes, 2005)
Dermot Ward	...	Niall Scully (5 episodes, 2005)
Luke Griffin	...	Kevin Walsh (4 episodes, 2005)
Dawn Bradfield	...	Deirdre Freeman / ... (4 episodes, 2005)
Liam Carney	...	Cliff Jones (4 episodes, 2005)
Andrea Kelly	...	Aine (4 episodes, 2005)
Gary Lydon	...	Paul 'Bomber' Brennan (4 episodes, 2005)
John Maguire	...	Cyril McKeon (4 episodes, 2005)
Ger McCormack	...	Mole Finnegan (4 episodes, 2005)
Stella McCusker	...	Molly Jackson (4 episodes, 2005)
Gail Fitzpatrick	...	Angela Donoghue (3 episodes, 2005)
Graham Lynch	...	Paudge Freeman (3 episodes, 2005)
Aisling Meaney	...	Ciara Freeman (3 episodes, 2005)
Bríd Ní Neachtain	...	Phil McKeon (3 episodes, 2005)
Richie Recks	...	Seamus Devine (3 episodes, 2005)

Runtime:

Ireland:312 min (6 parts)

Country:

Ireland

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Ireland:16

Filming Locations:

Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland

Company:

Accomplice Television

Drama set in rural Ireland showing the lives of six characters between Monday and Sunday

'Pure Mule' is set in contemporary, rural Ireland in the same terrain as award-winning playwright, Eugene O'Brien's play 'Eden'. It's a midlands market town, unnamed, but utterly familiar. Each of the six episodes is a self-contained story focusing on the weekend of one particular character from a Friday until a Monday morning. Although the focus moves from one character to another with each episode, they all weave in and out of each other's stories as the series evolves. In each story, disillusion and fear hover behind cocky bravado as the characters desperately signal for attention.

By times sexy, violent, comical and elegiac, the series expresses the frailty and longing that is at the heart of each booze-fuelled weekend. The drama is rich in language, loss and the edgy exchanges that can turn a night out into one of magic or misery. The phrase 'Pure Mule' can be positive or negative - 'went out, long queue, shite beer, no craic, walked home in the rain on me own, it was pure mule' or 'went out, straight in, no kissin', loadsa drink and scored big time, it was pure mule'. It all depends on the intonation.