accents

Started watching this and know that it has a cast of genuine capable actors but why oh why so many non Irish. We have regional dialects no less than in England and ours can change over the course of a very few miles so even had they used real Irish people there could be accent difficulties.

From what I can see of the story as it unfolds the location could have been anywhere in these islands and the ear would not have had to be annoyed by the attempts by actors to do this accent all in their own different received pronunciation ways.

Where was Russel Crowe master of many accents in 1994?

Of course I now can remember the days when the gritty dramas were the rage in the post war years the 50s and 60s. All those drama school trained voices in what is now seen as the estuary area trying to speak in the northern gritty accents of England's 'lower' classes. Didn't always work though.

Little did they [acting wanabees] all know that BIG BROTHER would be coming along and [fake] 'low' class [the common person' English accents would be a REQUIREMENT as a TV announcer presenter.

BTW I'm from near Belfast so I am trash myself.