Award-winning Irish soap Red Rock will be shown daily on BBC Daytime later this year.

Written by Peter McKenna (EastEnders, Casualty), the 40-part series premiered in Ireland in 2015.

Red Rock is set around the busy police precinct in a fictional seaside town just outside of Dublin, Red Rock follows the Hennessys and the Kielys, two local warring families. When a bloodied and lifeless body is found on the piers, a longstanding dormant feud between the two families is brutally reignited.

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Dan McGolpin, Controller of BBC Daytime, commented: “Daytime viewers are in for a treat with Red Rock. It’s a compelling new police drama set in Ireland, it has plenty of twists and turns, and it’s coming to the BBC this year.”

Stephen Driscoll, EVP Media, All3Media International added: “We are very proud to see Red Rock secure a home on the BBC. Red Rock delivers an engaging cast of characters and storylines that will grip audiences with this original mix of family drama and police procedural.”

The cast include’s Richard Flood (Killing Kennedy), Andrea Irvine (The Boxer), Cathy Belton (The Tiger’s Tale), Denise McCormack (1,000 Times Goodnight), Liam Carney (Gangs Of New York, Braveheart), Paul Roe (Veronica Guerin) and Jane McGrath (Game Of Thrones).

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