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Former Gaelcholaiste Chiarraí Student To Create New Sketches For RTÉ

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Shaun O’ Connor along with Tadhg Hickey are working together on a new series of sketches for RTE.

A FORMER Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí student has been commissioned by RTÉ for his second project with the national broadcaster in just under a year.

Shaun O’Connor, who is originally from Castleisland, along with his friend and writer Tadhg Hickey were delighted to get a series of weekly sketches as part of RTE’s ‘Comedy Bites’ campaign.

Shaun and Tadhg recently enjoyed huge success with their first show ‘(R)onanism’ (See here for previous story)

The show proved to be so popular that its time on RTE Player was extended on numerous occasions due to popular demand.

TraleeToday.ie had a look at the three-minute long first episode of his new sketch (simple, brilliantly awkward and very funny) entitled ‘Go With Ya’ which was shot, edited and uploaded all in a 24-hour period.

We got in touch with Shaun to talk about how this new opportunity came about and what his plans are the series.

“Ronanism did very well in terms of exposure. We got some very good people endorsing it, like Johnny Vegas watched it and enjoyed it, so did the Rubberbandits. It was great that we got such a good reception from it, so we followed up on that. We got got talking to the head of comedy at RTE, Eddie Doyle and he really liked our stuff too,” said Shaun.

“RTE were launching their ‘Comedy Bites’ series quite soon and Eddie just asked us would we be able to put in something for it, so we did. We’re frantically putting together a bunch of sketches and we’ll be putting stuff out every week for the next month I think.”

The premise of the show is supremely simple, but is very cleverly shot and written, in such a way that this writer can guarantee you will head back for a second watch before the day is out.

The first episode will be remaining online for the next 19 days, so Shaun and Tadhg are doing all they can on through Facebook and Twitter to promote the show as much as possible.

New details are to follow on the ‘Comedy Bites’ initiative but for now, you can sit back and enjoy watching the first episode which is now available to watch on RTE Player right now here.