User:AnemoneProjectors/Padraig Kelly (Redwater)

Padraig Kelly is played by Stephen Hogan. He is married to Roisín and is Andrew's father. Hogan said that Padraig is a "kind man" whose "main concerns are the welfare of his family". Maria Doyle Kennedy, who plays Roisín, said that Padraig has an "artistic life" and is not very interested in his wife's farming life. Doyle Kennedy said that they were in love once and had a child very young, and felt that the relationship then was a "youthful, possibly impetuous courtship and decision to marry that maybe hasn't worked out quite the way they thought it would." Roisín stays in her marriage because it is "the thing to do" even though they are mostly irritated by each other and tend to avoid each other.