With their new series set to premiere on RTÉ Two on Tuesday night, RTÉ Storyland winners and web stars The Hardy Bucks have promised fans and unsuspecting viewers an experience "like 'Bill & Ted' set in Mayo, without the special effects".
Speaking to RTÉ TEN on his first visit to Dublin, star Eddie Durkan said the series had "a fair bit going on" and that "jostling, a bit of driving 'round country lanes in a tuned-up Japanese hatchback" would be among the highlights.
In a candid and often moving three-minute interview outside the gates of RTÉ, Durkan also revealed that the quartet's web success had led to "no money whatsoever".
"I would've liked to have seen some money now because the financial burden is getting to me," said Durkan. "I'd to borrow some money off the oul' lady now to come down here to Dublin. She told me to go into Dunnes Stores and get an oul' shirt for myself, so I got this [points to frilly white dress shirt]."
In what may signal the start of a national debate about privacy and the burden of celebrity in Irish society, Durkan said that while the Bucks' web series on www.rte.ie/storyland meant he had "been to Galway a few times" fame had come a price.
"We're told to get out of places when we walk in because they know about our reputation for being wild men. We're nice fellas; we don't be up to much. We wish goodwill wherever we go. It's just that after a few pints..."
You can see what happens on RTÉ Two on Tuesday at 10:50pm.
