TELEVISION

SUNDAY AUGUST 1

Irish actress Dervla Kirwan has appeared in many British crime dramas and thrillers over the years. With , she has made one in her homeland, the six episodes being set in a small town on the rugged Atlantic coast of County Clare. Kirwan plays Val Ahern, the matriarch of a well-to-do family, whose husband Denis (Stuart Graham) is found dead at the bottom of a cliff the morning after a party to celebrate her 50th birthday. As we see in the preamble to the first episode, Denis’ death was no accident. And it’s complicated by the fact that at the previous night’s