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Arthur Mathews who with Graham Linehan wrote the Father Ted series, was born in County Meath and moved to Termonfeckin . at the age of nine.

He started work at Hot Press magazine as a graphic designer and while working there he formed the Joshua Trio in 1988,and they achieved a fair amount of success in Ireland. It was while working at Hot Press, that Arthur met Graham and the pair moved to London to write scripts for artists such as Mel Smyth, Griff Rhys Jones and Alexie Sayle.

Their first sitcom was Paris which featured Neil Morrissey, in his days before ‘Men Behaving Badly’.