Doherty’s Crá airs on BBC4

Having already aired on BBC1 Northern Ireland and Irish channel TG4, now the Philip Doherty directed Irish-language drama Crá has arrived to BBC4.

The first two episodes of the thrilling six-part Irish-language crime drama aired last weekend.

Crá roughly translates as ‘Torment’ or ‘Angst’, the plot begins when Garda Barry Roche played by the brilliant Alex Murphy finds a body buried in the bog in rural Donegal.

This sparks a murder investigation, which leads close to home for Garda Conall Ó Súilleabháin (Dónall Ó Héalai) as the body is identified as that of his mother, Sabine, who disappeared 15 years earlier. Due to his personal connection to the case, Ó Súilleabháin is barred from working on the investigation.

Meanwhile young journalist Ciara-Kate (Hannah Brady) hopes the cold case can help boost her career as well as ratings for her new true-crime podcast. Philip told the Celt previously that the language barrier shouldn’t hinder CRÁ finding an audience beyond these shores.

Distribution companies have already signed up to it from early days and have plans to distribute it all across Europe and “hopefully beyond that,” said the Cavan man.