'Single Handed' Screening On ITV, Sunday 2nd August
'Single Handed' was filmed in Connemara with a lot of locations along the Connemara Loop
"A policeman's patch usually covers a neighbourhood, a town, perhaps even a county, but in ITV1's new drama Single Handed young copper Jack Driscoll appears to be covering half of Ireland...
Jack, a sergeant with the Garda in Ireland, is posted back to the community on the west coast of Ireland where he grew up after an indiscretion with a senior officer's wife in the city.
And while he tries to rebuild his life and career in the shadow of his overbearing father and massive patch, he's immediately plunged into the thick of a major mystery when the body of a young refugee is found in a remote caravan.
Jack's played by rising Irish star, Owen McDonnell, 34, who's new to UK TV audiences. "
He says: "I knew it was a fantastic opportunity. When I read the first episode I'd never done any television before. They took a risk with me and I just didn't want to let anyone down so I worked my a** off... I didn't think about it till afterwards that if I was rubbish then all these 60-70 people around me were wasting their time!"
Interview with Owen McDonnell on ITV, who played Jack Driscoll