As the third series of Derry Girls opens, Mo Mowlam is on the telly round at the Quinn household, the Good Friday Agreement is on the horizon and Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) is in particularly portentous form.
“They told us we were young, yet we understood the enormity of it, we understood what was at stake”, she intones in her now-customary opening voiceover which, we soon learn, is also the narration for the short film that she and friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), Orla (Louisa Harland) and James (Dylan Llewellyn) have been making during their summer holiday respite from Our Lady Immaculate College.
