Eclectic Micks are a collection of Irish professional comic book artists. They include Stephen Mooney (Angel; After the Fall), Stephen Thompson (Star Trek; New Frontier, Presidential Material: John McCain), PJ Holden (Fearless, 2000AD) Nick Roche (Transformers, Doctor Who), Will Sliney (Farscape), Bob Byrne (Mr. Amperduke, 2000AD) and Declan Shalvey (Frankenstein, Hero Killers)
Every day there will be a sketch posted here, each artist posting on a certain day. Enjoy
Mrs Doyle tries to persuade Father Ted and Father Jack to have a cup of tea.
The My Lovely Horse song dream sequence featuring Father Ted and Dougal and a lovely horse.
In this classic clip Father Ted, Dougal and Jack take their annual holiday in the caravan.
Mrs Doyle recounts bad language from a book she’s read including ‘the bad f word’.
Foul-mouthed fans at the Father Ted Fest on Inis Mor today raised cash for local lifeboat services by contributing to a swear box.
The third annual gathering of devotees of the cult Channel Four show was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the death of lead actor, Irish comic Dermot Morgan, in 1998.
Feck, fup, grasshole and backstard – popularised swear words in the surreal series – were among the offensive words which yielded 500 euro for Inis Mor Lifeboat.
The fundraiser was the brainchild of Cardiff fan Kate Stephens whose son Joseph is a local lifeboat volunteer in Whitmore Bay in Wales.
Ms Stephens, who was dressed in a Mother Superior nun’s habit for the weekend, claimed the swear box was a handy way for sinners to repent.
“They weren’t real swear words of course – just the ones used in episodes of Father Ted,” she said.
“People seemed to prefer to repent with a few cents in the box than face the wrath of a priest in the confessional.”
Hundreds of Father Ted fans from Ireland and overseas took part in the four-day Father Ted Fest which gave local recession-hit tourism operators a welcome boost.
Participants enjoyed the self-styled Toilet Duck Comedy Awards, the Father Jack Cocktail Evening, Weddings With Father Elvis and the Lovely Girls Competition.
’DJ Altered Boy’ provided music at late night roller discos.
IT IS just a letter away from one of the strongest swear words in the English language. But watchdogs today decided the word “feck” can be included in an advertising campaign.
The term – made famous by the popular 1990s television comedy Father Ted – has been used in posters promoting Magners cider, in which a man tells bees to “feck off”.
The company immediately received complaints from irate members of the public who were concerned that children would see the advert.
But the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has now ruled the poster is suitable for display.
In its defence, Magners said that the man in the advert is not using an expletive but merely a “mild rebuff” to the bees.
The company said that, despite the Father Ted usage, the word has been in use in Ireland since the early 1800s and can mean “to steal”, “to throw” or “to leave hastily”.
T IS just a letter away from one of the strongest swear words in the English language. But watchdogs today decided the word “feck” can be included in an advertising campaign.
The term – made famous by the popular 1990s television comedy Father Ted – has been used in posters promoting Magners cider, in which a man tells bees to “feck off”.
The company immediately received complaints from irate members of the public who were concerned that children would see the advert.
But the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has now ruled the poster is suitable for display.
In its defence, Magners said that the man in the advert is not using an expletive but merely a “mild rebuff” to the bees.
Father Ted Crilly is among many of the quirky and odd characters on Craggy Island, who constantly feels burdened by the idiocy and insanity of those around him. He was sent to the failing parish as penance for a misdemeanour known only as ‘that Lourdes thing’, whereby he allegedly stole charitable donations intended to fund a poor child’s pilgrimage (he always claimed that the money was just resting in his account). Despite being one of the series few sympathetic characters, Ted was a greedy and faintly vainglorious man; he dreamed of abandoning his fellow clergy and ministering a parish far away in Las Vegas. However, he found his ambitions constantly quashed by the demands of his much feared, narcissistic superior, Bishop Len Brennan, and the two priests he was charged with caring for: the violent alcoholic Jack Hackett and the profoundly stupid Dougal McGuire, as well as their manic housekeeper Mrs. Doyle.
Ted has a long-standing rivalry with Father Dick Byrne, minister of Rugged Island, and could frequently be seen displaying his childish side through the various petty tricks he played on him.
Jack is an elderly, foul-mouthed, alcoholic priest who frequently lapses into violent psychosis, particularly when his fellow clergy deny him drink or try removing him from his armchair, where he can usually be found sleeping in his own squalor. Left irrevocably damaged by his life of sloth, lechery and alcohol abuse, he rarely (if ever) speaks in a coherent manner, instead expressing himself through a series of random shouted words, often profanities, such as “feck!”, “arse!”, “drink!”, “gobshite!” and “girls!”.
While it is never explicitly stated just why Bishop Brennan has doomed Jack to Craggy Island, it seemingly has something to do with a wedding ceremony he performed in Athlone.
A profoundly dense, thoroughly ignorant young priest (he once merrily confessed that “the lights are on but there’s no one home”), Dougal has no belief in or even a remote understanding of Catholic Christianity, once admitting that he believes more in Darth Vader and Phantom of the Opera than he does in God. Quite how he became a member of the clergy, or how he ended up on Craggy Island, remains a mystery, although in one episode Bishop Brennan mentions that the latter was punishment for an incident involving a Sealink ferry and some nuns.
A cheerful, innocent and naive soul, he has a childlike perception of life that rarely holds him in good steed with the much more grounded, cynical Father Ted, who regards him as an incredible annoyance. Father Dougal looks incredibly like the infamous Owelly of PPC Magazines £999 Challenge.
