I don't watch soaps but Fair City does have a big audience so to call it awful is wrong.Does anyone watch Fair City?
What a complete waste of licence fee, especially the kids with the posh south Dublin accents trying to say things like "Roight Dah"
Its a classic example of awful Irish television, a bit like Glenroe was towards the end when George was captured by FARC
Does anybody think it strange that Mags has been written out of Fair City while she is still alive taking into account her illness.
Other characters get "killed off" in soaps while the actors who portrayed them are still alive, nothing unusual there. It's television, not reality. ( Lorcan, Billy Meehan etc. for example ) and yes, I do watch it c.50% of the time.
"Reeling in the years"
I think Ash's point is that, in real life, the actress who plays Mags is suffering from Motor Neurone disease, so 'killing her off' in the Soap might be a bit insensitive.