With season two of Channel 4’s critically acclaimed sitcom Derry Girls finishing this week, The Dealer has some thoughts for a spin off that screen writer Lisa McGee may be interested in.

Set in southeast Ireland in the 1990s, four young dairy farmers enjoy their teenage years while milk quotas overhang the Irish dairy sector.

A female beef farmer from a neighbouring parish joins the friendship group, although she is somewhat misunderstood and is often the punchline of the joke.

The sitcom is essentially a fly on the wall view of a typical Irish farm house and includes all the adventures and misadventures of teenage life in rural Ireland.

The name of the show? You guessed it – Dairy Boys.

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