Thank you, Ros na Run: one of my late mammy's favourite soaps inspired my beautiful daughter's name

"As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, my attitude towards the Irish language soap has changed"

"I bitterly regret moaning and complaining about Fair City and EastEnders to Mammy when we watched TV together."

"Every night I would say the same kind of, "They are just the most awful people," or, "Real East End Londoners aren't like that," or, "They are all so miserable"."

As the Irish language soap reaches its thirtieth anniversary, personal feelings toward it have shifted. The narrator expresses bitter regret for previously moaning and complaining about Fair City and EastEnders to Mammy while they watched television together. The complaints became nightly routine, repeating dismissive judgments of the characters. The narrator labeled the characters "the most awful people," insisted that real East End Londoners were not like those portrayed, and described them as miserable. The pattern of criticism now provokes regret, suggesting a later appreciation of the shows and the shared experience of watching them with Mammy.

Read at Independent