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Actor Peter Warnock, who plays the role of Liam Casey, RTÉ soap 'Fair Cy' is a gut on Kenny Live where he talks to Pat Kenny about takg on the role of a gay character.

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WHY IRELAND'S GAY MUNY WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL TO FAIR CY

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Actor Peter Warnock, who plays the role of Liam Casey, RTÉ soap 'Fair Cy' is a gut on Kenny Live where he talks to Pat Kenny about takg on the role of a gay character. This was almost the first ever gay kiss on Fair Cy. 1996 - Eoghan and Liam have the first gay kiss on Irish televisn.

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There once was a time Ireland when beg gay was illegal. The archaic law was fally lifted 1993, which saw two characters on Fair Cy almost engage what would have been Ireland’s first ever on screen gay kiss.

In particular, the role of LGBT characters throughout the years has certaly played an important role brgg gay characters nightly to Irish livg rooms.

Intertgly, along wh the 4, 000 episo tone, 2016 also marks the twentieth anniversary of Fair Cy’s first (near) gay years after the crimalizatn of homosexualy Ireland 1993, RTÉ, after toyg wh the ia of havg an existg character e out as gay, cid to make the move and troduce a new character for the purpose of flyg the rabow flag Carrigstown. In 1995, Eoghan Healy (Alan Smyth) was signifince of his eventual g-out, which took place on a New Year’s Eve special 1995, was evint om the reactn by the Irish public, particularly the watchg gay dience. Followg the g-out episo, lls to a regnal gay helple almost doubled immediately after the broadst.

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This public reactn was ditive of the polil signifince of havg a gay character on prime-time TV, while also makg huge gas for gay visibily the Irish Eoghan settled to Carrigstown life and beme a regular fixture, wrers were keen to nvey Ireland’s new sexual landspe by givg the universy stunt a love tert. As the gay Irish dience exhaled their disappoted breath, was clear that RTÉ was still unwillg to go all the way wh the gay by pictg a full on same-sex embrace.

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Dpe the ial reluctance to portray gay timacy on screen, by 1999 Fair Cy was to have three openly gay characters and sce then, Carrigstown has embraced characters om all sis of the LGBT spectm (although McCoys has yet to see a trans character cross s thrhold) 2008, Yvonne Doyle me out as bisexual and had a mment ceremony to her then partner Connie the lol muny centre. Although is very easy to dismiss soap storyl as whimsil, no value n be placed on havg the liv of mori such as Ireland’s gay muny reflected on, on the celebratn of s 4, 000 episo, is important to acknowledge the role that Fair Cy has had brgg gay characters and their liv to the livg room of Irish hom on a nightly well as helpg to normalise the LGBT muny (and what better way than have to them Carrigsotwn), Fair Cy, perhaps for the first time Irish televisn history, troduced the first posive reprentatn of a gay person the Irish media.

His doctoral this, entled Queer (In)Visibily Irish Media, 1974-2014, terrogat media reprentatns of gay Irish people and the polil signifince of media visibily for mory groups. The almost gay kiss.

Back when the soap first aired 1989, homosexual relatnships were a crimal offence. Not long after two gay characters squared-up for a game of tonsil tennis on Fair Cy. And the moment would have been Ireland’s first on-screen gay kiss, but Eoghan and Liam were sudnly terpted.

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