Fair City celebrates its 5000th episode this Sunday with a dramatic incident

Ireland’s longest-running drama series Fair City celebrates its 5,000th birthday on Sunday. Follow with a dramatic plot.

he show, which has been running since September 1989, marks the milestone with popular character Nora Keogh, played by Ruth Hegarty, who is crushed in an incident at Molloy’s Car Garage.

Beautiful city has been a mainstay and ratings generator for the national broadcaster for decades, only briefly interrupted by the Covid 19 pandemic.

In the Sunday episode, Ray, asking where ordered parts are, leaves Doug to keep an eye on a car held in place by bricks.

Doug takes care of the car and removes the bricks so it can roll out of the garage.

Unfortunately, Nora is in the wrong place at the wrong time and gets crushed.

Doug is consumed with guilt over what happened to Nora, but will he admit what happened or will he be hailed as a hero?

Beautiful city has been broadcast on RTÉ continuously since 1989, interrupted only for five months by the Covid-19 pandemic from April to September 2020.

More than a million people tuned in to the start of the program and it still regularly gets ratings of between 300 and 400,000, increasing for special episodes.

There are currently four episodes per week, which has been the case since 2001.

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The 5,000^th Episode airs tomorrow at 8pm on RTÉ One.