{"id":394476,"date":"2026-04-12T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:55:13","slug":"siobhan-cullen-and-roisin-gallagher-on-the-final-season-of-rte-comedy-drama-the-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394476\/","title":{"rendered":"Siobh\u00e1n Cullen and Roisin Gallagher on the final season\u00a0of RT\u00c9 comedy drama The Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAhead of the third and last series of RT\u00c9\u2019s comedy drama \u2018The Dry\u2019, Roisin Gallagher and Siobh\u00e1n Cullen \u2013 who play on-screen sisters \u2013 share why they identified with their characters and how roles for women have changed for the better\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actors Siobh\u00e1n Cullen and Roisin Gallagher, who star as Caroline and Shiv Sheridan in The Dry. Photo: Alex Sheridan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/_2508_LIFE_0492 (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Actors Siobh\u00e1n Cullen and Roisin Gallagher, who star as Caroline and Shiv Sheridan in The Dry. Photo: Alex Sheridan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Roisin Gallagher first read for the part of Shiv Sheridan, the lead in the series The Dry, written and created by Nancy Harris and directed by Paddy Breathnach, she felt an instant note of recognition. \u201cI remember reading the scene for the audition, and in it she said, \u2018I\u2019m 35, and I\u2019m not where I thought I should be. And I remember going, \u2018Oh. Oh I get that,\u2019\u201d Gallagher, who is on Zoom from a hotel room, smiles. \u201cI wanted to know more about what that is, to be a 35-year-old woman and not be [at] the place where you feel like you should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Things at the time, professionally, were \u201cstrange\u201d, she recalls with a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the third and last series of RT\u00c9\u2019s comedy drama \u2018The Dry\u2019, Roisin Gallagher and Siobh\u00e1n Cullen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5456,117393,17202,93,61,60,56007,6361,28658,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-394476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-ciaran-hinds","10":"tag-derry-girls","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-liadan-hynes","15":"tag-life-magazine","16":"tag-michelle-obama","17":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394476","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=394476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}