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The story is set in Cork during the 2008 crash, as our eponymous bookshop heroine falls head-over-Friels in love with hunky customer James whilst also setting up the ould love triangle by getting herself entangled with her married college professor.
I wish it could be Christmas every day…
t was first announced in February 2025, and now, the Channel 4 adaptation 
of Caroline O’Donoghue’s 2023 novel The Rachel Incident is finally going before the cameras.
t was first announced in February 2025, and now, the Channel 4 adaptation 
of Caroline O’Donoghue’s 2023 novel The Rachel Incident is finally going before the cameras.And those cameras just happen to be in Las Tapas today and tomorrow.
Being one of the town’s most photogenic eateries.
Behind the production is Dublin’s Element Pictures, who previously gave us the rather successful TV outing Normal People as well as such Oscar-faved movies as Room (2015), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023) and this year’s big contender, Bugonia (2025). They’re also responsible for quite possibly the Greatest Irish Film of All Time, Adam & Paul (2004).
Behind the camera for The Rachel Incident is reportedly Bray lad Paddy Breathnach, who’s no slouch when it comes to acclaimed movies, having given us I Went Down (1997), Viva (2015) and Rosie (2018). Only when we got in touch with him just now, Paddy said he’d heard that too, but, eh, he most definitely isn’t. 
So, we checked with Irish Film & Television Network, and they have Giulia Gandini and Greystones’ own Megan K. Fox as co-directors. And then, just to be sure, to be sure, we checked with Screen Ireland, and they’ve got Ruth Treacy as director. So, who the feck knows? We’ll have to get Sinan to steal a name badge.
So, we checked with Irish Film & Television Network, and they have Giulia Gandini and Greystones’ own Megan K. Fox as co-directors. And then, just to be sure, to be sure, we checked with Screen Ireland, and they’ve got Ruth Treacy as director. So, who the feck knows? We’ll have to get Sinan to steal a name badge.
Alison Oliver
