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Ellis Howard, M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad Tyers, Caroline O’Donoghue, Daniel Ings and Sarah Greene<\/p>\n
M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad Tyers said: \u201cI am so excited and grateful to be part of this project. I read the book when it first came out and fell in love with Caroline\u2019s writing and this story – and with Channel 4, UCP, Element Pictures and PAGEBOY at the helm, Rachel and James\u2019 story couldn\u2019t be in safer hands .\u201d<\/p>\n
The show is produced by UCP and award-winning Element Pictures ( Normal People, Poor Things ) in association with PAGEBOY Productions. Starring alongside M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad and Sarah are UK actors Ellis Howard ( What It Feels Like for a Girl, Red Rose ) and Daniel Ings ( The Gentlemen, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms ).<\/p>\n
Author Caroline O\u2019Donoghue added that M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad was her first choice to play her main character. She said: “M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad Tyers is a star and has always been my first choice to play Rachel. She and the phenomenally charming Ellis Howard create what feels like an instantly iconic double act, fizzing with all the love and panic that makes being in your early twenties both nightmarish and amazing.”<\/p>\n
“To have the brilliant Sarah Greene and Daniel Ings as Deenie and Fred is a dream, and I’m gushing with enthusiasm for the rest of the cast who make the world of THE RACHEL INCIDENT feel so alive and full of energy – including but not limited to Ardal O’Hanlon and Maria Doyle Kennedy, actors I grew up loving and still can’t believe are joining our team. Collaborating with Giulia Gandini and Megan K. Fox and our entire crew has already been such a joy and I am once again grateful to the teams at Channel 4, UCP, Element Pictures and PAGEBOY for their continued support in building this show, which I can’t wait to share with audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also joining the stellar line-up is C\u00fa\u00e1n Hosty-Blaney ( Say Nothing, House of Guinness ) as Carey, Ciar\u00e1n Dowd (Bad Sisters, Marriage) as Ben, Helen Behan ( Malpractice, The Virtues ) as Bridget, Ardal O\u2019Hanlon ( Sherlock and Daughter, The Woman in the Wall ) as Paul, Jeanne N\u00ed \u00c1inle ( Hidden Assets, North Sea Connection ) as Sabrina, Molly McFadden as Sinead, Maria Doyle Kennedy ( KIN, Recipes For Love And Murder ) as Vivian.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donoghue adapted the script, collaborating with Jen Statsky the Emmy award-winning co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Max’s hit comedy HACKS. Prior to that, she was a co-executive producer on NBC\u2019s THE GOOD PLACE, working all four seasons on the Emmy-nominated show. Statsky also served as a co-executive producer on Comedy Central\u2019s BROAD CITY. Her other writing credits also include NBC\u2019s PARKS AND RECREATION, Netflix\u2019s LADY DYNAMITE, and Amazon\u2019s FOREVER. She will be an executive producer of The Rachel Incident.<\/p>\n
And if you just can’t wait for the show to be released, you can pick up a copy of The Rachel Incident novel on Amazon for under \u20ac10 HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork stars M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad Tyers and Sarah Greene play main roles in the coming-of-age series 14:38, 16 Feb 2026Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[14641,93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-301491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cork-city","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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