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List of Fair City characters

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6570648 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fair City is an Irish television soap opera first broadcast on RTÉ One in 1989. The following is a list of characters who currently appear in the programme and a list of former characters, listed in order of first appearance. Some characters have been recast since their first appearance.

Present characters

Past characters

The following characters departed Carrigstown.

Characters who are dead or believed to be dead

Celebrity cameos

The following famous faces have appeared in Fair City. Reg E. Cathey has expressed a wish to appear in Fair City, as has Verity Rushworth.

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“List of Fair City characters” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, Fair and City can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, Fair and City.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of Fair City characters” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.