Give My Head Peace

give my head peace! is a brilliant programme full of home grown talent. the name for the show came from Olivia Nash(Ma) as its what she constantly says to her own family. this show always gets a laugh, even when it confronts serious issues(i mean, who cant laugh at Cal making an eejit of himself??). children love it too, doing impressions of Da, Uncle Andy and Gerry.

and it uses traditional "norn Irish" like "youse", "youse think i come up the Lagan in a bubble?" and "banjaxed". class! i would recommend this to anyone, unfortunately its only available on BBC1 NI on a Friday night......

For those of you who are outside of Northern Ireland may not be familiar with this show that started off as a feature length comedy show called "Two Ceasefires and a Wedding". It is about a RUC officer who marries a Catholic woman whose father is just plain stupid. If you ever get to have a look at this show please watch this little gem. I promise you that you won't be disappointed.

This is too funny. Roman Catholic woman marries Protestant RUC man. Woman leaves him Protestant RUC man marries her sister. The best episodes are the one were Cal goes the woman obsessed with The Sound of Music, The one with Red hand Luke building a gigantic bonfire, The one with Cal marrying Bernedette also in the same episode Andy's double and the one with Mervyn marrying the white rabbit. The actors and actresses still are called the hole in the wall gang. 10 outta 10

On paper this looks it could be good. It's not.

I have never met anyone from Northern Ireland that finds this show even remotely funny, the jokes are poor the cast affect over the top accents and deliver lines like they are on cue cards with half a sentence per card.

The sectarian humour was stale and 20 years past its sell by date when it first released and it seems the writers still haven't figured that out.

It feels like they are trying to emulate the late great James Young, unfortunately no one in the cast has any charisma.

Honestly this show is an embarrassment to my home country, I would pay a small yearly subscription if it meant it was never shown anywhere ever again.

The meer thought of protestants & catholics joined at the hip (so to speak)is completely off the wall, i recommend this program to everyone, but as i've lived in Rep.Ireland for about 8yrs i know what the characters are on about (A Brit living in Eire & back to UK). THIS SERIES "WILL" HAVE THE VIEWER IN STITCHES... It helps to know what is going on outside the news reports when you are watching this show...but it is very funny. A MUST SEE PROGRAM

The characters in "Give My Head Some Peace" used to be called "The Hole In The Wall Gang".

it is a pity that the BBC doesnt show the program in the UK, though i hope that soon they will.