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Published 08:21 9 Feb 2018 GMT
“There were lots of day-to-day things that were funny but occasionally there was something big like Omagh, that the whole nation went ‘this just has to change’ and I think, I wanted to mix that in with this ‘life goes on’ thing. It had to be at the end.”
“I’ve not based anything on any particular incident, but it was just something at that scale,” McGee added.
“There were lots of times when your family stood around the TV and just couldn’t speak because this was people in your own place doing it to each other. I just wanted to nod to the fact that there were those times as well.”
Two of the stars of the show, Saoirse Monica-Jackson (Erin) and Nicola Coughlan (Clare) also spoke to RadioTimes.com about Clare’s coming out, the other major storyline in the final episode and the initially hostile reaction of Erin to the news.
“I hope that we’ve played it right and I hope, for a lot of young gay kids out there, that we’ve done that kind of story justice,” Coughlan said.
"I know we’re a comedy but at the same time we really felt the weight of responsibility and we wanted to do it properly.”
You can read the interview in full on RadioTimes.com here.
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