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[email protected] | w: www.irishpost.co.uk NEWS Sir Alex’s Ah-ha! It’s the passion TD’s fury at Irish Father Ted creators! for Irish BY NICK BRAMHILL THE CREATORS of Father Ted Government’s have told how they get more recognition for a cameo role they history played in another offbeat comedy than for penning the timeless BY NICK BRAMHILL Craggy Island scripts. Writers Graham Linehan and MANCHESTER UTD boss Alex apathy towards Arthur Mathews once played two Ferguson has revealed a secret RTÉ TV executives in an episode passion for Irish history. of I’m Alan Partridge. Fergie said he is a huge In the episode, To Kill A Mock- admirer of Michael Collins, ing Alan, Linehan and Mathews who he describes as a “roman- travel to Norwich to sound out tic figure”, doomed once he socially incompetent TV presen- Steve Coogan’s character Alan signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty ‘Famine Song’ ter Partridge, played by Steve Partridge. and agreed the partition of Coogan, for a job. the Six Counties. However, it all goes horribly ly encapsulates the frustration of BY PHIL MAC GIOLLA BHAIN wrong when tactless Partridge a Sunday.” UNSATISFACTORY: upsets the pair when he refers to Linehan said his five-minute A DONEGAL TD has angrily Donegal Fine Gael TD the Irish as “toothless simple- cameo in that episode gets him reacted to what he believes is the Joe McHugh criticised tons”, before further displaying more recognition on the streets continuing inactivity of the Irish the Irish Government’s his ignorance of Irish popular than all the scripts he wrote for Government in the face of racist lack of action over the culture and history with a tor- Father Ted.