THE HICKEY WEEKLY
	Pat Shortt back on the Telly Mattie Following the long-running success of Killinaskully Pat Shortt returns to light up our television screens this Christmas in a pilot for a brand new TV series, MATTIE. The ever-popular comedian and award-winning actor plays Mattie Dwyer, a country detective, transferred to a city station - whose recurring ability to get into comic misadventures soon surfaces. Teamed up with feisty female detective Sharon Kelly (played by Lesley Conroy) Mattie struggles to adapt to the rough and tumble of city policing, ridicule at the hands of smug fellow detectives, Tom and Felix (played by Alvaro Lucchesi and Sean McDonagh) and the watchful eye of Superintendent O’Meara (played by Joe Taylor). Further comic complications in the form Mattie’s demanding bed-ridden mother, her friend Sr Philemena, a rogues gallery of criminals and an under-cover cop who can’t get a proper pair of high heels add the final ingredients into the recipe for an hilarious new comedy drama. Filmed in Limerick in July, MATTIE was written by Pat Shortt and Mike Finn, script edited by David Cummings (The Fast Show, Harry Enfield & Chums). Directed by Killinaskully’s Eugene O’Connor and produced by Shortt and Brian Kelly, MATTIE is a Gable End Media production for RTE.