{"id":672422,"date":"2026-09-04T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672422\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:08:17","slug":"boys-of-tommen-adds-jonathan-forbes-cobhan-obrien-and-more-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672422\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Boys of Tommen’ Adds Jonathan Forbes, Cobhan O’brien and More to Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPrime Video<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Boys of Tommen\u201d has added Jonathan Forbes, Cobhan O\u2019brien, Harvey Moloney, Tristan Heanue and Lewis Brophy to its cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tForbes (\u201cCatastrophe,\u201d \u201cThe Rainmaker\u201d) joins as Johnny Kavanagh\u2019s father John Senior, O\u2019brien (\u201cFoundation\u201d) and Moloney (\u201cKrimi\u201d) as Shannon Lynch\u2019s younger brothers Tadhg and Ollie, Heanue (\u201cClean Sweep\u201d) as Aoife Molloy\u2019s father Tony Molloy and Brophy (\u201cThe Virtues,\u201d \u201cKing) as Podge.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe adaptation of Chloe Walsh\u2019s \u201cBoys of Tommen\u201d previously announced Nancy Surridge would be playing Shannon while Conor S\u00e1nchez is Johnny Kavanagh and James O\u2019Donoghue plays Joey Lynch.<\/p>\n

\n\tSophie McGibbon also stars as Aoife Molloy, Amelia May as Claire Biggs, John Hewson as Gerard Gibson, Indy Lewis as Lizzie Young, Alex Dunne as Hugh Biggs, Dixie Egerickx as Katie Wilmot and Jamie Schneider as Patrick Feely.<\/p>\n

\n\tDaisy Jacob joins as Bella Wilkinson, Jonathan Heed as Cormac Ryan, Cathal \u00d3 S\u00edoch\u00e1in as Ronan McGarry and James Craven as Pierce O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe YA series follows a forbidden romance at Tommen College, a prestigious private school in Ballylaggin, Ireland where tar rugby player Johnny Kavanagh and shy new girl Shannon Lynch are both harboring secrets: Johnny a devastating injury and Shannon a troubled homelife.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThrough their secret and highly charged connection, the two teens from opposite worlds battle against the odds and find a way to save each other,\u201d reads the synopsis.<\/p>\n

\n\tPoppy Cogan (\u201cA Good Girl\u2019s Guide to Murder\u201d) is adapting the first season, which will be based on the first two novels in the book series, \u201cBinding 13\u2033 and \u201cKeeping 13.\u201d Brendan Canty (\u201cChristy\u201d) directs Wiip is producing the series in association with Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tCogan exec produces alongside Walsh, Wiip\u2019s Paul Lee, Hope Hartman and Sean Flanagan, Temple Hill\u2019s Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, James Seidman and Annika Patton and Drama Republic\u2019s Greg Brenman and Deena Butt. Carla Stronge is casting director. Ingrid Goodwin serves as Series Producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tForbes is repped by 42 Management and Production. Moloney is repped by SRL Talent Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video\u2019s \u201cThe Boys of Tommen\u201d has added Jonathan Forbes, Cobhan O\u2019brien, Harvey Moloney, Tristan Heanue and Lewis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,3973,128],"class_list":["post-672422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prime-video","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117213404051119618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}