Are Mayo’s Hardy Bucks set for new episodes chasing monsters?

If you found yourself in Callow Lake a couple of weeks ago, you might have stumbled across something odd happening. 

Hardy Bucks star Owen Colgan has revealed that they shot a “little tester episode” at the scenic setting between Swinford and Foxford. 

“We did it like an episode there a couple of weeks ago, actually, like a little tester episode in Callow Lake. [It’s] an episode where we're going to be chasing a lake monster, the cousin of the Loch Ness monster. So kind of going back to the silliness too. It's more important than ever.”

He was speaking to Oliver Callan at a special RTÉ broadcast from Blacksod. 

Reflecting on the show, he was proud that it was “a timestamp of that particular time in Ireland.” 

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It has been more than a decade since the Hardy Bucks crew last got together to make an episode. 

Their wider cultural place remains despite the hiatus of jig acting from the gang in Castletown, the fictional place which comes from an amalgamation of Castlebar and Charlestown.

Oliver Callan pointed out the popularity of clips from the show on Tiktok, which Colgan has said has given the show “a resurgence every once in a while, and maybe a new generation find it.”

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Colgan says the show started with the fictional characters Eddie Durkan and the Viper “knocking around Charlestown recording some sketches and then they decided to add in new characters, and then they brought us all in, a bit like the Royal Rumble. So I came in and then Michael Salmon came in, and different people came in.”

Joking that they were method actors since we were about six years old, Colgan thinks the older and potentially wiser Hardy Bucks are “a bit more ready for it now, and I think it'd be nice to deal with current topics, like, we'll say mortgages and, having kids, divorce and all that kind of stuff.”