Fair City
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Created by | Margaret Gleeson |
| Starring | List of current characters |
| Theme music composer | Columb Fallahey, Andy O'Callaghan |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 23 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Brigie de Courcy |
| Producer(s) | Teresa Smith |
| Location(s) | Ardmore Studios, Bray, County Wicklow (1989-1994), Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 (1994 – present) |
| Camera setup | Multiple-camera setup |
| Running time | 23 minutes (excluding ad breaks) |
| Production company(s) | Radio Telifis Éireann |
| Release | |
| Original network | RTÉ One |
| Picture format | 4:3 (1989–2005), 16:9 (2005 – present) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 18 September 1989 – present (27 years, 162 days) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Fair City is an Irish television soap opera on RTÉ One. The show is produced by the public service broadcaster RTÉ, it first aired on RTÉ One on Monday 18 September 1989. It has won several awards and is both the most popular and the longest running Irish soap opera.
Plots centre on the domestic and professional lives of the residents of Carrigstown, a fictional suburb on the north side of Dublin. The area encompasses a restaurant, pub, garage, corner shop, community centre, charity shop, surgery and various businesses. Originally aired as one half-hour episode per week for a limited run, the show is now broadcast year round on RTÉ One in four episodes per week, all of which air at 20:00.
Fair City is the most watched drama in Ireland, with average viewing figures of 550,000. Devised by Margaret Gleeson, it has remained a significant programme in terms of RTÉ's success and audience share, and also in the history of Irish television drama, tackling many controversial and taboo issues previously unseen on Irish television, such as rape.
Fair City is set in Carrigstown, a fictional suburb of Northside Dublin. Many of the scenes take place around the main street in Carrigstown, with notable landmarks on the street including McCoy's pub, Phelan's corner shop (now Spar, formerly Doyle's), The Hungry Pig (formerly The Bistro), the Community Centre (formerly The Haven) and Vino's (formerly Rainbows Sandwich Bar.) Other notable settings include the Acorn Cabs dispatch centre, the shared office, the Helping Hand charity shop, the surgery and most recently The Station.
According to the RTÉ Guide, Carrigstown is bounded by Drumcondra to the north, the city centre to the south, East Wall to the east and Phibsboro to the west. Carrigstown takes its name from the village that grew up around the quarries in which granite was mined until the early 20th century - carrig being the Irish word for rock.
Fair City occasionally makes use of real Dublin locations. Sequences have been shot in the Natural History Museum, on Grafton Street, during the Dublin City Marathon, and, more recently the Zoo and on the Luas, as well as at the National Ploughing Championships. The title sequences involve shots of Dublin.
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