This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
Sean McGinley
Ger Ryan
Neilí Conroy
Barry Ward
Gemma Butterly
Jake Williams
Des McAleer
Pauline McLynn
Vinnie McCabe
Donna Dent
David Gorry
Lorcan Cranitch
Martin Murphy
John Cronin
Darren Kenny
Honor Heffernan
Andrew Connolly
Judith Ryan
Tom Hickey
David Carey
Lynne Kinlon
Eamonn Hunt
Michael Liebman