Tadgh and Ettie

Wed, 8 February 2017

Sixteen year old Tadhg visits his Granny Ettie in Clonlara, County Clare every day and stays overnight as often as he can - he considers her his second Mammy.

Tadhg has just moved into fifth year in secondary school and must begin his studies for his leaving cert. Ettie spent 8 years in the UK working as a nurse and returned to Ireland in 1976 in order to raise her family. Until her recent retirement, she worked with adults with Special Needs and now spends her spare time reading and looking after her grandchildren.

She dotes on Tadhg and their relationship is extremely close. They are travel buddies, have visited Boston and Lake Garda together and, last summer, they went to Australia to visit Ettie’s son for a month.

When it comes to TV, Ettie is a big fan of The Chase, Antiques Roadshow and WW2 documentaries. She has a fascination with war-time films and books and any type of period drama.

She and Tadhg enjoy movies together, while he also loves to watch The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad.

Tadhg says his guilty pleasure is Big Brother but Ettie thinks it's rubbish! Ettie’s pin-up would be Sean Connery and her favourite actor is Tom Hanks. Tadhg is a huge Quintin Tarantino fan.

The brand new series of Gogglebox Ireland airs Wednesday's at 9pm on TV3 and 3player.