Who is joining the cast?

Father Ted actor Ardal O’Hanlon will be joining the Derry Girls’ family, although sadly not as a priest. He’ll play Eamonn, described as the “awkward, middle-aged mummy’s boy of the Quinn/McCool extended family”.

Where did we leave the characters last time?

The final episode of season one delivered some big moments.

The girls were accidentally put in charge of their school magazine, The Habit, and published an anonymous confession from a pupil about her sexuality.

The letter-writer turned out to be Clare, who came out to her friends and family. In a shock move, however, her best friend Erin didn’t take the news well, telling her to “go back in” the closet.

But the friends reunited at the school talent contest where they, along with James and Michelle, leapt up on stage to support Orla as she performed a step aerobics routine to Madonna’s Like a Prayer.

The emotional punches didn’t stop there – scenes of the group dancing was interspersed with Erin and Orla’s family switching on the TV to learn that a fatal IRA bombing had destroyed the Quinn household.

Derry Girls: everything you need to know about season 2 of the hit family comedy